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Abraham  Lincoln's  Vow 
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ABRAHAM    LINCOLN'S 

Vow  Against  the 
Catholic   Church 

BY  M.  H.  WILCOXON 


LINCOLN'S  WARNING 

"I  do  not  pretend  to  be  a  prophet.  But 
though  not  a  prophet,  I  see  a  very  dark  cloud 
on  our  horizon.  That  dark  cloud  is  coming 
from  Rome.  It  is  filled  with  tears  of  blood.  It 
will  rise  and 
increase  till 
its  flanks  will 
be  torn  by  a 
flash  of  light- 
ning, followed 
by  a  fearful 
peal  of  thun- 
der. Then  a 
cyclone  such 
as  the  world 
has  never  seen 
will  pass  over 
the  country, 
spreading  ruin 
and  desolation 
from  north  to 
south.  After  it 
is  over  there 
will  be  long 
days  of  peace 
and  prosperi- 
ty ; for  popery, 
with  its  Jesu- 
its and  merciless  Inquisition,  will  have  been 
forever  swept  away  from  our  country.  Neither 
I  nor  you,  but  our  children,  will  see  these 
things."  (From  page  715,  Fifty  Years  in  the 
Church  of  Rome,   by  Rev.   Charles   Chiniquy.) 


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Abraham  Lincoln's   Vow  Against 
*    the  Catholic  Church 


BY  M.  H.  WILCOXON 

Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  April  30,  1909 
Mr.  Member  of  Congress, 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Sir:  In  my  letter  of  April  9th,  I  endeavored  to  show  you  particularly  the 
scope  of  the  scheme  of  the  Catholic  Church  and  the  American  Medical  Assoc- 
iation to  secure  augmented  political  power  through  the  movement  for  a  Na- 
tional Department  or  Bureau  of  Health. 

I  wish  to  quote  again  to  you  the  language  of  Lincoln,  and  quote  further 
some  interesting  matter  which  may  reasonably  be  held  to  account  for  his 
utterances  and  his  "great  purpose." 

Lincoln  to  164th  Ohio,  August  18,  1864: 

"I  wish  it  might  be  more  generally  and  universally  understood 
WHAT  the  country  is  now  engaged  in.  We  have,  as  all  will  agree, 
a  free  Government,  where  every  man  has  a  right  to  be  equal  with 
every  other  man.  In  this  great  struggle,  this  FORM  of  government 
and  EVERY  human  right  is  endangered  if  our  enemies  succeed. 
"There  is  MORE  involved  in  this  contest  than  is  realized  by 
every  one.  There  is  involved  in  this  struggle  the  question  whether 
your  children  and  my  children  shall  enjoy  the  privileges  we  have 
enjoyed.  I  say  this  in  order  to  impress  upon  you,  if  you  are  not 
already  impressed,  that  no  small  matter  should  divert  us  from  our 
great  PURPOSE. 

The  real  issue  in  this  country  is  the  eternal  struggle  between 
these  two  principles — right  and  wrong — throughout  the  world.  They 
are  the  two  principles  that  have  stood  face  to  face  from  the  begin- 
ning of  time,  and  will  ever  continue  to  struggle.  The  one^  is  the 
common  right  of  humanity,  and  the  other  the  divine  right  of 
kings.  It  is  the  same  principle  in  whatever  shape  it  develops 
itself." — Lincoln. 
Lincoln  to  the  Evangelical  Lutherans,  May  6,  1862: 

"...  I  accept  with  gratitude  their  assurances  of  the  sympathy 
and  support  of  that  enlightened,  influential,  and  loyal  class  of  my 
fellow-citizens  in  an  important  crisis  which  involes,  in  my  judg- 
ment, not  only  the  civil  and  religious  liberties  of  our  own  dear  land, 
but  in  a  large  degree  the  civil  and  religious  liberties  of  MANKIND 
IN  MANY  COUNTRIES  AND  THROUGH  MANY  AGES.  You 
well  know,  gentlemen,  and  the  world  knows,  how  RELUCTANTLY 
I  accepted  the  issue  of  battle  forced  upon  me  on  my  advent  to  this  , 
place  by  the  internal  enemies  of  our  country.  .  .  I  now  humbly 
and  reverently,  in  your  presence,  reiterate  the  acknowledgement  of 
that  dependence,  not  doubting  that,  if  it  shall  please  the  Divine 
Being  who  determines  the  destinies  of  nature,  this  shall  remain  a 
united  people,  and  they  will,  humbly  seeking  the  Divine  guidance, 
make  their  prolonged  national  existence  a  SOURCE  of  NEW  bene- 
fit to  themselves,  and  their  successors  and  to  all  CLASSES  and 
CONDITIONS  of  mankind." 

Lincoln  also  said:     "I  do  not  pretend  to  be  a  prophet,  but  though 
not  a  prophet,  I  see  a  very  dark  cloud  on  our  horizon;  and  that 


cloud  is  coming  from  Rome.  It  is  filled  with  tears  of  blood.  The 
true  motive-power  is  secreted  behind  the  thick  walls  of  the  Vatican, 
the  colleges  and  schools  of  the  Jesuits,  the  convents  of  the  nuns, 
and  the  confessional  boxes  of  Rome." 

Lincoln  also  said:  "At  what  point  shall  we  expect  the  approach 
of  danger?  Shall  we  expect  some  transatlantic  military  Grant  to 
step  the  ocean  and  crush  us  at  a  blow? 

"Never;  all  the  armies  of  Europe,  Asia,  and  Africa  combined, 
with  all  the  treasures  of  the  earth  (our  own  excepted)  in  their  mili- 
tary chest,  and  with  a  Bonaparte  for  a  commander,  could  not,  by 
force,  take  a  drink  from  the  Ohio,  or  make  a  track  on  the  Blue 
Ridge,  in  a  trial  of  a  thousand  years.  At  what  point,  then,  is  this 
approach  of  danger  to  be  expected?  I  answer,  if  it  ever  reach  us, 
it  must  spring  up  amongst^  us.  It  cannot  come  from  abroad.  If 
destruction  be  our  lot,  we  \must  ourselves  be  its  author  and  fin- 
isher. As  a  nation  of  freemen,  we  must  live  through  all  time  or  die 
by  suicide." 

What  did  Lincoln  mean  in  saying  to  the  164th  Ohio  in  1864,  when  the 
war  was  almost  over;  when  the  turning  point  has  been  surely  passed:  "I 
wish  it  might  be  more  generally  and  universally  understood  what  the  coun- 
try is  now  engaged  in.  .  .  .  There  is  mqre  involved  in  this  contest  than  is 
realized  by  every  one.  ...  I  say  this  in  order  to  impress  upon  you,  if 
you  are  not  already  impressed,  that  no  small  matter  should  divert  us  from  our 
#rea£  PURPOSE."  And  to  the  Lutherans  in  1862:  ",.  .  .  not  doubting 
that,  if  it  shall  please  the  Divine  Being  who  determines  the  destinies  of 
nations,  this  shall  remain  a  united  people,  and  they  will,  humbly  seeking  the 
Divine  guidance  make  their  prolonged  national  existence  a  SOURCE  of  new 
benefit  to  themselves,  and  their  successors,  and  to  all  CLASSES  and  CON- 
DITIONS of  MANKIND."  What  was  Lincoln's  great  PURPOSE— the  form 
of  the  thank  offering  to  the  Almighty  for  National  preservation,  that  should 
spring  from  the  war  as  a  SOURCE  of  new  benefit  to  themselves,  and  their 
successors,  and  to  all  classes  and  conditions  of  mankind? 

In  a  little  book  of  some  320  pages,  "The  Engineer  Corps  of  Hell,"  com- 
piled and  translated  by  Edwin  A.  Sherman,  32d  degree  (late  33d,  I  under- 
stand) of  the  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  of  Freemasonry,  a  copy  of 
which  was,  upon  April  10,  1909,  in  the  Congressional  Library,  I  find  an 
account  of  the  defense  by  Abraham  Lincoln  of  Rev.  Father  Chiniquy,  in 
1856,  in  the  court  of  Urbana,  111.,  in  which  the  Catholic  Bishop  of  Chicago 
was  involved,  and  which  came  before  Judge  David  Davis.  On  page  140  Mr. 
Sherman  writes:  "When  she  read  the  paper  (Chicago  newspaper)  she  said: 
'Chiniquy  is  innocent,  and  I  know  it.'  'I  heard  the  whole  thing  as  it  was 
planned  in  the  Priest  Le  Belle's  house  by  him  with  his  sister,  and  he  promised 
to  give  her  two  eighty-acre  tracts  of  land  if  she  would  swear  that  Chiniquy 
had  made  dishonorable  proposals  to  her  and  attempts  upon  her  person/  'At 
first  she  refused,  and  denied  positively  that  Chiniquy  had  ever  done  anything 
of  the  kind,  and  that  she  would  be  guilty  of  perjury  and  damn  her  own  soul 
if  she  should  swear  to  anything  of  the  kind,  for  it  was  absolutely  false. 
After  much  urging  and  pressing  on  the  part  of  the  Priest  Le  Belle,  and  she 
still  refused,  he  said:  'Mr.  Chiniquy  will  destroy  our  holy  religion  and  our 
people  if  we  do  not  destroy  him.  If  you  think  that  the  swearing  that  I  ask 
you  to  do  is  sin,  you  will  come  to  confess  to  me  and  I  will  pardon  it  in  the  abso- 
lution I  will  give  you.'  'Have  you  the  power  to  forgive  a  false  oath?'  replied 
Mrs.  Bossy  to  her  brother.  'Yes,'  he  answered;  I  have  that  power;  for  Christ 
has  said  to  all  his  priests:  "What  you  shall  bind  on  earth  will  be  bound  in 
heaven;  and  what  you  shall  loose  on  earth  shall  be  loosed  in  heaven."  '  Mrs. 
Bossy  then  said:     'If  you  promise  that  you  will  forgive  me  that  false  oath, 


— 3— 

and  if  you  will  give  me  tlie  160  acres  of  land  that  you  promised,  I  will  do 
what  you  want.'     The  Priest  Le  Belle  then  said:     'All  right.' 

"When  Narcisse  Terrien  heard  this  from  his  wife  he  said,  'If  it  be  so, 
we  can  not  allow  Mr.  Chiniquy  to  be  condemned.  Come  with  me  to  Urbana.' 
But  his  wife  being  quite  ill,  said  to  her  husband,  'You  know  well  that  I  can 
not  go.  But  Miss  Philomena  Moffat  was  with  me  then;  she  knows  every 
particular  of  that  wicked  plot  as  well  as  I  do.  She  is  well,  go  and  take  her 
to  Urbana.  '  There  is  no  doubt  that  her  testimony  will  prevent  the  condem- 
nation of  Mr.  Chiniquy.  Upon  that  her  husband  and  Miss  Moffat  started  at 
once,  and  arrived  in  the  night  at  Urbana,  sought  Mr.  Lincoln  and  revealed  to 
him  the  whole  diabolical  plot,  of  which  he  went  immediately  and  informed 
Chiniquy.  In  the  meantime  the  priests  watched  the  trains  and  examined  the 
hotel  registers  and  found  that  Mr.  Terrin  and  Miss  Moffat  had  arrived.  The 
Priest  Le  Belle  met  her  coming  from  Mr.  Lincoln's  room,  a  colloquy  ensued, 
and  he  offered  her  a  large  sum  of  money  to  leave  immediately  and  return  to 
Chicago  and  not  appear  in  court.  She  positively  refused,  informed  him  that 
Mr.  Lincoln  knew  all.  Fearing  the  evil  consequences  that  would  result  when 
the  hellish  scheme  would  be  made  public,  he  went  and  informed  the  other 
priests,  and  they  left  before  daylight  the  next  morning.  The  suit  was  with- 
drawn by  consent  of  the  court  and  counsel,  but  not  until  Mr.  Lincoln,  with 
words  of  burning  eloquence  and  melting  pathos,  described  the  long  and  mali- 
cious persecution  of  his  client  by  his  enemies,  and  with  the  most  bitter  invec- 
t  ve  that  the  human  mind  can  conceive  or  the  tongue  can  utter,  denounced 
the  infernal  machinations  of  Bishop  O'Regan  and  his  accomplices,  and  rising 
to  his  full  height,  declared :     'That  while  an  almighty  ruling  Providence 

PERMITTED  HIM  TO  SEE  THE  LIGHT  OF  DAY  AND  BREATHE  THE  PURE  AIR  OF  HEAV- 
EN, AND  SO  LONG  AS  HE  HAD  A  BRAIN  TO  THINK,  A  HEART  TO  FEEL  AND  A 
HAND  TO  EXECUTE  HIS  WILL,  HE  WOULD  DEVOTE  THEM  ALL  AGAINST  THAT 
INFERNAL  POWER  THAT  WAS  THE  ENEMY  OF  ALL  FREE  GOVERNMENT  AND  OF  THE 
FREE  INSTITUTIONS  OF  HIS  COUNTRY,  THAT  POLLUTED  THE  TFMPLES  OF  JUSTICE 
WITH  ITS  PRESENCE  AND  ATTEMPTED  TO  USE  THE  MACHINERY  OF  THE  LAW  TO 
OPPRESS  AND   CRUSH   THE   INNOCENT  AND   HELPLESS.'  " 

"He  hated  wrong  and  oppression  everywhere,  and  many  a  man  whose 
fraudulent  conduct  was  undergoing  review  in  a  Court  of  Justice  has  writhed 
under  his  terrific  indignation  and  rebuke." — Judge  David  Davis.     Nicolay. 

Lincoln  had  a  powerful  example  of  how,  through  the  buying  and  selling 
of  indulgences,  by  pardoning  of  crime  committed  in  the  interest  of  the 
church,  there  was  practically  no  safeguard  for  the  reputation  or  the  life  of  a 
man  who  menaced  the  interests  of  the  church.  To  such  a  man  as  Lincoln 
such  action  must  be  as  odious  and  great  a  menace  as  treason  itself.  I  be- 
lieve if  a  priest  had,  originally  been  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  he  was 
divested  of  that  citizenship  and  became  an  alien,  surrendered  his  conscience 
and  his  future  action,  spiritual  and  political,  to  the  direction  of  the  Pope — 
became  a  relig'ous  bigot,  an  intriguer  and  spy  for  the  Pope  the  moment  he 
subscribed  to  a  priest's  oath.  That  no  man  having  taken  such  or  a  similar 
oath,  can  be  naturalized  within  the  spirit  of  the  Constitution.  Whether  the 
Government  recognizes  the  temporal  pretensions  of  the  Pope  or  not,  the  priest 
does  and  makes  his  binding  allegiance  to  it. 

".     .     .     Urbana,  May  23,  1856.     Due  A.   Lincoln  fifty  dollars,  for 
value  received. "     (p.  178.) 

(Page  189)  :  ".  .  .  Mr.  Lincoln,  as  he  had  just  finished  writing  the 
due  bill,  turned  round  to  him  and  said:  'Father  Chiniquy,  what  are  you 
crying  for?  You  ought  to  be  the  most  happy  man  alive.  You  have  beaten 
your  enemies  and  gained  a  glorious  victory,  and  you  will  come  out  of  all 
these  troubles  in  triumph/  Said  Father  Chiniquy:  'Mr.  Lincoln,  I  am  not 
weeping  for  myself ,  but  for  you,  sir,  and  your  death;  they  will  kill  you,  sir. 
What  you  have  said  and  done  in  court,  holding  them  up  in  derision  and 


making  the  declarations  you  have  in  court,  and  defeating  them  in  ignominy 
and  shame,  there  will  be  no  forgiveness  for  you,  and  sooner  or  later  they  will 
take  your  life.  And  let  me  say  further,  that  were  I  a  Jesuit,  as  they  are,  and 
some  one  of  them  been  in  my  place  and  I  in  theirs,  it  would  have  been  my 
sworn  purpose  to  either  kill  you  myself  or  find  the  man  to  do  it,  and  you  will 
be  their  victim!'  At  this 'Mr.  Lincoln's  countenance  changed  to  a  most  pecu- 
liar visage,  expressing  determination,  and  with  a  sarcastic  smile  accompany- 
ing it,  said:  'Father  Chiniquy,  is  that  so?'  'It  is/  answered  Father  Chini- 
quy.  'Then/  said  Mr.  Lincoln,  as  he  spread  out  the  due  bill  for  my  signature, 
'please  sign  my  death  warrant.'  Father  Chiniquy  signed  the  due  bill,  which 
he  shortly  afterwards  paid,  and  kindly  loaned  to  us  in  the  year  1878,  still  in 
our  possession,  and  which  we  had  laid  on  a  lithographic  stone  by  Wm.  T. 
Galloway  &  Co.  of  San  Francisco,  and  several  thousand  certified  copies  of  it 
struck  off  for  our  brethren  and  friends.  It  eventually  proved  to  be  the  death 
warrant  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  as  we  shall  endeavor  to  show  in  the  following 
chapters,  and  that,  as  previously  stated  in  Part  First :  'In  whatever  place 
of  the  Catholic  world  a  Jesuit  is  insulted  or  resisited,  no  matter  how  insig- 
nificant he  may  be,  he  is  sure  to  be  avenged — and  this  we  know.'  " 

With  a  man  of  the  fidelity  of  Abraham  Lincoln  to  justice,  humanity,  his 
oath  to  his  countrymen,  and  his  promise  to  an  "Almighty  Ruling  Providence" 
to  devote  his  powers  "against  that  infernal  power  that  was  the  enemy  of  all 
free  government  and  of  the  free  institutions  of  his  country,  that  polluted  the 
temples  of  justice  with  its  presence  and  attempted  to  use  the  machinery  of 
the  law  to  oppress  and  crush  the  innocent  and  helpless,"  is  it  strange  that  he 
had  a  "great  purpose?"  Would  it  be  strange  in  such  circumstances,  that  he 
would  have  an  ambition  that  the  war — "That  singular  and  unnecessary  in- 
testine collision,  ...  at  the  mystery  of  which  leading  secessionists  were 
so  much  puzzled  that  they  declared  it  to  be  the  effects  of  a  general  lunacy, 
was  nevertheless  in  perfect  harmony  with  the  profound  and  masterly  policy 
of  the  Roman  See  which  comprehends  in  its  toils  the  events  of  ages,  and  from 
the  first  projection  of  a  plot  to  its  final  consummation,  shapes  every  inter- 
vening circumstance  to  the  fulfillment  of  its  grand  design;"  that,  that  war 
which  he  understood  and  we  never  did,  should  be  the  "SOURCE  of  new  bene- 
fits" to  us,  our  successors,  and  all  classes  and  conditions  of  mankind. 

Out  of  a  personal  experience  which  had  inspired  such  a  solemn  dedication, 
the  war  practically  closed,  four  years  of  opportunity  for  service  to  his  coun- 
try and  humanity,  opportunity  such  as  had  not  been  had  and  appreciated 
since  Jesus  Christ,  that  he  would  have  supinely  allowed  the  buying  and  sell- 
ing of  crime,  in  and  out  of  the  courts  of  a  people  who  had  his  solemn  oath  to 
uphold  the  fundamentals  of  their  government,  confided  to  him  in  the  highest 
trusteeship  on  earth. 

Lincoln  belonged  to  no  church;  in  fidelity  to  all  that  goes  to  make  a 
Christ-like  character,  he  towered  above  churchmen,  Cardinals,  Archbishops, 
Bishops,  Preachers  and  laymen.  Lincoln  was  God  Almighty's  rebuke  to 
American  Protestants  before  his  day,  and  the  monument  to  their  shame  to- 
day. A  man  whispering  the  sentiment  of  Lincoln's  vow  today,  is  branded 
as  an  intolerant  bigot  by  Protestant  and  Catholic  alike,  and  it  was  left  for  an 
individual  then  occuping  the  office  of  President,  dignified  by  Lincoln,  to  re- 
buke a  citizen  of  the  United  States  who  protesting  against  a  Roman  Catholic 
for  President,  "can  be  influenced  by  such  narrow  bigotry." 

We  crowd  the  public  service  at  home  and  abroad  with  adherents  to  the 
institution  stigmatized  by  Lincoln  as  an  "enemy  to  all  free  government," 
insulting  Lincoln's  memory  while  we  hypocritically  laud  him  and  build 
monuments  which  belie  us  and  belittle  him.  The  Catholic  ridicules  the  Pro- 
testant's religious  sincerity,  and  mocks  him  when  he  says:  "In  self-defense, 
Catholics  must  become  independent,  and  vote  for  those  only  who  will  not 
deny  them  their  rights  as  citizens  because  of  their  religion.     The  rights  of 


—5— 

conscience  are  more  important  than  protection  or  free  trade." — Catholic 
Review. 

With  the  Protestant,  protection  or  free  trade  are  more  important,  be- 
cause exercising  the  rights  of  conscience  is  bigotry. 

"Then,  one  of  the  twelve,  called  Judas  Iscariot,  went  into  the  chief  priests 
and  said  unto  them,  What  will  ye  give  me  and  I  will  deliver  him  unto  you? 
And  they  covenanted  with  him  for  thirty  pieces  of  silver.  .  .  .  Then 
Judas,  which  had  betrayed  him,  when  he  saw  that  he  was  condemned,  re- 
pented himself,  and  brought  again  the  thirty  pieces  to  the  chief  priests  and 
elders,  saying,  I  have  sinned  in  that  I  have  betrayed  innocent  blood,  and  they 
said,  what  is  that  to  US?    See  THOU  to  that." 

The  Protestants  are  Christianizing  the  world  outside  of  the  United  States, 
and  selling  their  votes  to  Rome  for  the  prosperity  to  raise  the  money.  Rome 
takes  the  money  from  the  offices  and  appropriations  the  Protestants  give 
her,  furnishes  more  government  situations  for  converts,  until  a  standing 
inducement  of  Rome  to  a  concert  is  prospect  of  a  Government  position. 

Said  President  Lincoln:  "Archbishop  Hughes,  I  have  invited  you  here 
as  the  chief  representative  and  episcopal  dignitary  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  in  the  United  States,  for  the  purpose  of  a  conference  with  you,  the 
result  of  which,  I  trust  will  be  of  benefit  to  the  country  and  satisfactory  to 
ourselves.  .  .  .  These  Protestant  religious  societies,  both  clerical  and 
laity,  are  purely  local,  and  with  no  foreign  spiritual  head  or  Church  govern- 
ment to  direct  or  control  them,  and  their  pastors  are  chosen  and  accepted  by 
the  popular  voice .  from  among  themselves.  To  a  great  extent,  however, 
though  they  have  gone  in  a  wrong  direction  in  national  affairs,  but  they 
have  followed  out  the  American  idea  of  self-government,  and  nine  hundred 
and  ninety-nine  per  cent  out  of  a  thousand  in  numbers  are  native  and  to  the 
manor  born,  and  in  no  portion  of  the  United  States,  as  you  are  no  doubt  well 
aware,  is  the  prejudice  against  the  foreign-born  population  so  great  as  it  is 
in  the  South.  Yet  throughout  the  South,  and  in  a  great  many  places  in  the 
North,  as  I  am  reliably  informed  through  authentic  sources  and  in  the  public 
press,  the  bishops  and  priests  of  your  Church,  acting  under  an  implied  if  not 
direct  authority  from  the  Pope,  whose  declared  sympathy  is  with  the  Rebell- 
ion, have  absolved  all  Roman  Catholic  citizens  from  their  allegiance  to  the 
United  States  Government,  encouraged  them  in  acts  of  rebellion  and  treason, 
and  have  consecrated  the  arms  and  flags  borne  by  the  insurgent  troops  which 
have  been  raised  to  fight  against  the  Union.  Bishop  Lynch  of  Charleston, 
South  Carolina,  Fathers  Ryan  of  Georgia,  and  Hubert  of  Louisiana,  and 
others,  have  been  particularly  active  and  conspicuous  in  this  work.  I  have 
sent  for  you  chiefly  on  the  score  of  humanity.  I  do  not  want  this  war,  which 
has  become  so  wickedly  begun  for  the  destruction  of  the  Union  to  become  a 
religious  one.  It  is  bad  enough  as  it  is,  but  it  would  become  tenfold  worse 
should  it  eventually  ^Take  that  shape,  and  its  consequences  no  one  now  living 
could  foresee.  There  is  an  apparent  coalition  between  the  Pope  and  Jefferson 
Davis,  at  the  head  of  the  rebel  government,  and  the  acts  of  his  bishops  and 
priests  in  the  South  and  elsewhere  confirm  this  opinion.  And  if  such  be  the 
case,  the  others  in  authority  and  the  laity  in  the  North  must  naturally  be 
influenced  and  governed  in  their  actions  by  what  is  sanctioned  and  directed 
by  their  Spiritual  Head  at  Rome.  Their  loyalty  to  the  Government  of  the 
United  States  would  naturally  wane;  they  would  become  neutral  and  pas- 
sive if  at  last  they  did  not  become  active  sympathizers  with  the  Rebellion, 
and  they  soon  take  up  arms  as  auxiliaries  against  the  Union.  Your  Church 
is  a  unit  with  a  supreme  head  and  not  divisible.  Its  chief  is  a  temporal 
sovereign,  who  wields  the  scepter  over  the  States  of  the  Church  in  his  own 
country,  and  so  far  as  he  can  do  so  by  concordats,  treaties,  or  otherwise,  en- 
forces the  establishment  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  as  the  religion  of  the 
State,  with  other  powers  where  he  is  able  to,  and  looks  with  a  jealous  eye 


— 6— 

upon  all  governments  where  he  does  not  command  the  secular  arm,  or  where 
his  authority  in  temporal  affairs  is  disputed.  Now,  what  I  desire  to  state  to 
you  is,  the  definition  of  the  rights  of  an  American  citizen  as  towards  his 
government  so  far  as  they  apply  to  the  matter  in  question.  A  native-born 
American  citizen  has  the  inherent  right  of  revolution  within  his  own  coun- 
try. If  he  does  not  like  to  obey  the  laws  of  his  government  or  wants  to  set 
up  a  new  government  by  exciting  revolt  and  takes  up  arms  to  overturn  it,  he 
has  the  inherent  right  to  do  so  within  the  limits  of  the  territorial  boundaries 
of  his  government,  but  not  to  destroy  or  segregate  any  portion^  of  his  com- 
mon country  from  the  rest,  and  he  must  take  his  chances  of  his  treason  and 
rebellion  in  the  success  or  defeat  of  his  object.  Not  so,  however,  with  the 
naturalized  foreign-born  citizen ;  he  has  no  such  right.  He  can  not  become 
a  President  or  Vice-President  under  our  own  Constitution,  and  he  is  not 
accorded  the  same  rights  and  privileges  under  the  rebel  government  that  he 
enjoys  under  that  of  the  United  States.  Every  naturalized  citizen  is  bound 
by  his  oath  in  his  renunciation   of  allegiance  to  every  other   power, 

PRINCE,  OR  POTENTATE  ON  THE  FACE  OF  THE  EAllTH,  AND   IS   SWORN   TO  SUPPORT 

and  defend  the  Constitution  and  Government  of  the  United  States  against 
all  its  enemies  whatsoever,  either  domestic  or  foreign.  Now,  after  having 
taken  that  oath,  he  can  not  renounce  it  in  favor  of  any  other  government 
within  its  territorial  limits,  and  if  found  to  be  giving  aid  and  sympathy  or 
encouragement  to  its  enemies,  or  is  captured  with  arms  in  his  hands  fighting 
against  the  government  which  he  has  sworn  to  support,  he  is  liable  to  be  shot 
or  hung  as  a  perjured  traitor  and  an  armed  spy,  as  the  sentence  of  a  court- 
martial  may  direct,  and  he  will  be  so  shot  or  hung  accordingly,  as  there 
wI£l  be  no  exchange  of  prisoners.  If  a  naturalized  citizen  finds  that  he 
can  not  comply  with  his  oath  of  naturalization,  he  must  leave  the  country  or 
abide  the'  consequences  of  his  disaffection  and  disloyalty.  The  position  in 
which  the  bishops  and  priests  of  your  church  in  the  South  have  placed  the 
naturalized  citizens  belonging  to  their  faith,  as  well  as  themselves,  is  a 
perilous  one,  and  their  acts  must  be  recalled  and  annulled  by  the  Pope, 
or  they  and  their  followers  must  abide  the  results  of  their  perjured  and  trea- 
sonable action. 

"Archbishop  Hughes,  nominally  a  Union  man,  and  necessarily,  for  policy's 
sake,  if  nothing?  else,  compelled  to  be  so  from  his  official  position  in  that 
church  as  a  public  man  in  the  North,  and  himself  a  naturalized  citizen,  saw 
the  status  of  himself  and  others  in  like  condition,  and  feeling  the  full  force 
of  President  Lincoln's  argument,  agreed  to  do  what  he  could  by  his  influence 
with  the  Pope  to  have  the  acts  referred  to  annulled  by  the  Pope,  and  this  with 
other  matters  to  prove  his  own  loyalty  and  sincerity,  went  to  Europe  for  that 
purpose  as  well  as  others  with  which  he  was  entrusted  with  a  special  mission 
by  President  Lincoln,  which  he  performed  satisfactorily  and  received  his  per- 
sonal thanks. 

"The  effect  was  a  simulated  neutrality,  but  the  evil  had  been  done  already, 
and  as  the  war  had  to  be  fought  out  to  the  bitter  end,  there  was  that  which 
could  not  have  been  the  result  of  accident,  but  rather  of  design,  among 
Roman  Catholic  troops  who  were  engaged  on  both  sides,  and  in  battle,  as  a 
general  rule,  they  were  not,  as  organized  bodies,  arrayed  against  each  other. 
In  northern  cities  they  resisted  the  draft,  created  riots  and  performed  acts 
of  outrage,  robbery  and  murder,  which  at  last  had  to  be  suppressed  by 
veteran  troops  sent  from  the  field  for  that  purpose.  But  the  war  had  to 
come  to  an  end.  The  original  plan  of  the  Jesuits  and  the  Pope,  both  in  the 
United  States  and  Mexico,  was  to  end  in  ignominous  failure — the  union  cause 
to  triumph  and  the  Republic  of  Mexico  to  be  restored.  Protestant  blood  on 
both  sides  had  caused  to  flow  in  rivers  and  drench  the  mountains  and  the 
plains,  while  the  places  of  the  victims  of  the  internecine  strife  were  to  be 
filled  with  importations  from  Roman  Catholic  populations  from  abroad. 


— 7— 

"During  the  long  night  of  four  years  of  sorrow  and  tears  and  death  which 
swept  every  heartstone  in  the  land,  Abraham  Lincoln,  ever  trusting  and  ever 
confident  of  the  coming  dawn  of  liberty,  of  peace,  and  the  success  of  the 
cause  of  the  Union,  was  in  receipt  of  constant  threats  of  assassination.  In 
July,  1864,  on  being  reminded  that  right  must  eventually  triumph,  admitted 
that,  but  expressed  the  opinion  that  he  should  not  live  to  see  it,  and  added, 
7  feel  a  presentiment  that  I  shall  not  outlast  the  Rebellion.  When  it  is  over, 
my  work  will  be  done.*  But  that  the  great  crime  of  his  assassination  might 
not  be  fixed  upon  the  real  Jesuit  conspirators  and  murderers,  the  South  was 
to  be  made  to  unjustly  bear  the  stigma  of  the  horrid  deed,  which  was  to  for- 
ever rankle  as  a  festering  thorn  in  the  restored  Union  and  keep  alive  the 
smouldering  embers  of  sectional  hate  between  the  North  and  th  South,  and  to 
keep  Protestant  Americans  forever  apart,  while  the  balance  of  power  should 
be  augmented  and  retained  in  the  hands  of  the  Papal  hierarchy,  a  sword 
whose  blade  should  be  everywhere,  but  with  its  hilt  at  Rome/ "  (pages 
200-204.) 

How  many  of  the  following  principles,  indulged  and  practiced  by  the 
Papacy,  endorsed  as  Christian  doctrine  by  Protestants  by  their  votes,  accept- 
ed as  patriotic  by  every  party  and  public  man  who  makes  an  alliance  with 
Roman  Catholicism,  and  licensed  in  return  for  votes  by  every  party  in 
municipal  or  National  control,  would  have  been  sanctioned  by  Lincoln?     « 

"It  is  a  certain  and  a  common  opinion  among  all  (Catholic)  divines,  that, 
for  a  just  cause,  it  is  lawful  to  use  equivocation,  in  the  modes  propounded, 
and  to  confirm  it  (equivocation)  with  an  oath." — St.  Liguori,  Less  I  2,  c  Ul, 
n,  U7. 

"The  Pope  is  the  proper  authority  to  decide  for  me  whether  the  Constitu- 
tion of  this  Country  is  or  is  not  repugnant  to  the  laws  of  God." — O.  A. 
Brownson. 

"Ecclesiastics  sin  not  mortally  in  violating  the  laws  of  secular  princes, 
because  they  are  not  directly  bound  by  such  laws." — Escobar  Theol  Mor. 

"The  rebellion  of  an  ecclesiastic  is  not  a  crime  of  high  treason,  because 
he  is  not  subject  to  the  king." — Emmanuel  Sa. 

Lincoln  told  Archbishop  Hughes  he  would  not  be  bound  by  such  a  law, 
and  such  ecclesastics  would  be  shot  or  hung.  This  was  heresy,  and  Mr. 
Lincoln  came  under  condemnation.  McKinley  said  April  11th,  1898,  "The 
only  hope  of  relief  and  repose  from  a  condition  which  can  be  no  longer 
endured,  is  the  enforced  pacification  of  Cuba.  In  the  name  of  humanity,  in 
the  name  of  civilization,  in  behalf  of  endangered  interests  which  give  us 
the  RIGHT  and  the  DUTY  to  speak  and  act,  the  war  in  Cuba  must  stop." 
Again:  "Without  abandoning  past  limitations,  traditions  and  principles,  but 
by  meeting  present  opportunities  and  obligations,  we  shall  show  ourselves 
worthy  of  the  great  trust  which  civilization  has  imposed  upon  us.  Thus  far 
we  have  done  our  supreme  duty.  Shall  we  now,  when  the  victory  won  in  war 
is  written  in  the  treaty  of  peace  and  the*  civilized  world  applauds  and  waits 
in  expectation,  TURN  TIMIDLY  AWAY  FROM  THE  DUTIES  IMPOSED  UPON  the 
country  by  its  own  great  deeds?  And  when  the  mists  fade  and  we  see  with 
clear  vision,  may  we  not  go  forth  rejoicing  in  a  strength  which  has  been 
employed  solely  for  humanity  and  always  been  tempered  with  justice  and 
mercy,  confident  of  our  ability  to  meet  the  EXIGENCIES  which  await 
us  because  confident  that  our  course  is  one  of  duty  and  our  CAUSE  that  of 
RIGHT? — Atlanta,  Dec.  15,  1898. 

Asrain,  in  Senate  Document  No.  190  of  the  56th  Congress.  ?d  session,  at 
page  2,  I  read  from  a  report  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  dated  February  19, 
ipOl,  to  President  McKinley,  from  which  I  quote:  'The  policy  of  the  Execu- 
tive to  be  pursued  in  dealing  with  titles  to  the  lands  held  in  mortmain  or 
otherwise  for  ecclesiastical  or  religious  uses  in  the  Philippine  Islands  was 
declared  in  your  instructions  to  the  Philippine  Commissioners,  transmitted 


to  them  through  me  on  the  7th  of  April,  1900,  as  follows:  'It  will  be  the 
duty  of  the  commission  to  make  a  thorough  investigation  into  the  titles  to  the 
large  tracts  of  land  held  or  claimed  by  individuals  or  by  religous  orders; 
into  the  justice  of  the  claims  and  complaints  made  against  such  land  holders 
by  the  people  of  the  island,  or  any  part  of  the  people,  and  to  seek  by  wise 
and  peacable  measures  a  just  settlement  of  the  controversies  and  redress  of 
wrongs  which  have  caused  strife  and  bloodshed  in  the  past/ 

"In  the  performance  of  this  duty  the  commission  is  enjoined  to  see  that 
no  injustice  is  done,;  to  have  regard  for  substantial  rights  and  equity,  disre- 
garding technicalities  so  far  as  substantial  right  permits,  and  to  observe  the 
following  rules:  That  the  provision  of  the  treaty  of.  Paris  pledging  the 
United  States  to  the  protection  of  all  rights  of  property  in  the  islands,  and  as 
wTell  the  principle  of  our  Government,  which  prohibits  the  taking  of  private 
property  without  due  process  of  law,  shall  not  be  violated;  .  .  .  that  no 
form  of  religion  and  no  minister  of  religion  shall  be  forced  upon  any  com- 
munity or  upon  any  citizen  of  the  islands;  that  upon  the  other  hand,  no 
minister  of  religion  shall  be  interefered  with  or  molested  in  following  his 
calling,  and  that  the  separation  between  state  and  church  shall  be  real,  en- 
tire, and  absolute.'  "  Following  which  the  Secretary  of  War  says :  '"No 
one  has,  in  behalf  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  entered  into  any 
obligation,  other  than  that  set  forth  in  the  late  treaty  with  Spain,  in  regard 
to  the  disposition  or  maintenance  of  any  alleged  titles  to  such  lands,  nor  has 
any  other  policy  to  be  pursued  in  dealing  with  such  titles  been  declared  or 
announced.*' 

Upon  September  6,  1901,  President  McKinley  was  shot  by  a  Roman 
Catholic,  and  on  September  14,  1901,  he  died.  The  Vice-President  immedi- 
ately succeeded  to  the  Presidency. 

In  a  public  document,  being  "Hearing  before,  the  subcommittee  of  the 
Committee  on  Indian  Affairs  of  the  Senate  "Indian  appropriation  bill,  1905," 
I  find  upon  page  22,  a  copy  of  a  circular  by  "W.  C.  Nohe,  secretary  Catholic 
Club,  931  F  street,  N.  W.,"  dated  "Washington,  D.  C,  June  15,  1902."  "Dated 
ahead  of  actual  writing."  "Reverend  and  Dear  Sir:  Our  club  wishes  to 
bring  to  your  attention  certain  events  which  will  prove  of  interest  to  Catho- 
lics in  general.  While  it  is  evident  that  we  have  still  some  uncompromising 
enemies  in  both  parties,  the  facts  which  I  herein  present  will  convince  you 

that  a  GREAT  CHANCE  HAS  COME  OVER  THE  REPUBLICAN  PARTY  AS  FAR  AS  ITS 
POLICY  AND   ATTITUDE  TOWARDS  THE   CHURCH  IS   CONCERNED.      This   church  has 

made  it  its  business  to  watch  closely  the  general  trend  of  legislation,  the 
attitude  of  the  Administration,  and  the  disposition  of  individual  members  of 
Congress  toward  the  churcl^,  regardless  of  their  politics.     ... 

The  plan  of  the  Administration  of  buying  out  the  friars  and  turning  the 
money  received  for  their  lands  over  to  the  church  is  in  line  with  policy  of  the 
church  and  the  recognition  of  the  J3 ope  by  this  Government,  by  sending  a 
commission  to  Rome  to  deal  with  his  Secretary  of  STATE,  and  is  by  far  the 
greatest  step  ever  taken  toward  a  peaceful  solution  of  the  Philippine  ques-  ' 
tion.  The  adoption  of  the  Fairbault  plan  in  the  public  schools  of  the  Philip- 
pines is  another  instance  of  the  enlightened  policy  of  the  Administration  and 
of  Congress.  By  this  plan  Catholic  priests  may  teach  a  certain  period  of 
each  school  day  the  doctrines  of  the  church  in  any  of  the  public  schools 
of  the  islands." 

"Manila,  P.  I.,  June  4. — The  entire  educational  system  of  the  islands  has 
been  put  under  the  charge  of  General  James  F.  Smith,  a  devout  American 
Catholic.  The  place  on  the  supreme  court  of  the  archipelago,  from  which 
he  was  promoted,  has  been  filled  by  Judge  McDonough.  of  Albany,  giving  the 
Catholics  a  majority,  counting  the  natives,  on  that  tribunal.  The  number  of 
American  Catholics  holding  prominent  places  here  in  civil  and  commercial 


— 9— 

m 

life  is  notably  large;  they  will  help  to  settle  the  religious*  question" — Lin- 
coln's Letter  to  Boston  Transcript. 

So  the  United  States  already  has  one  Federal  Supreme  Court  where  a 
majority  are  Catholics,  which  has  handed  down  one  opinion  as  follows:  "The 
complaint  alleged  the  title  in  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  The  defendant  in 
his  answer  denied  such  ownership  and  ^alleged  title  in  the  province  of 
Laganoy.  That  province  being  given  permission  to  intervene,  filed  its  plead- 
ing in  intervention,  alleging  that  it  owned  the  property  in  Question."  The 
court  said:  "We  have  said  that  it  (that  is,  the  municipality  of  Laganoy) 
could  have  no  such  title  of  ownership  even  admitting  that  the  Spanish  Gov- 
ernment was  the  owner  of  the  property  and  that  it  passed  by  the  treaty  of 
Paris  to  the  American  Government.  But  this  assumption  is  not  true.  As  a 
matter  of  law,  the  Spanish  Government  at  the  time  the  treaty  of  peace  was 
signed  w^s  not  the  owner  of  this  property  or  of  any  other  property  like  it 
situated  in  the  Philippine  Islands." 

"Gregory  of  Valentia:  Commentariorum  Theolicorum  Tomus  iii.  Iutetiae 
Parisiorum,  1609  (Lut.  Par.,  1660,  Ed.  Coll.  Sion).  Without  respect  of  per- 
son, may  a  judge,  in  order  to  favor  a  friend,  decided  according  to  any  pro- 
bable opinion,  while  the  question  of  RIGHT  remains  undecided?  .... 
For  the  sake  of  his  friend,  he  may  LAWFULLY  pronounce  sentence  accord- 
ing to  the  opinion  which  is  more  favorable  to  the  INTEREST  of  that  friend. 
He  may, .moreover,  with  the  intent  to  serve  his  friend,  at  one  time  judge 
according  to  one  opinion,  and  at  another  time  according  to  a  contrary  opin- 
ion, provided  only  that  no  SCANDAL  results  from  the  decision." 

It  is  a  very  pertinent,  a  very  material  question,  whether  the  allegiance  of 
a  majority  of  the  Supreme  Court  is  to  the  Pope,  or  to  the  United  States. 
Whether  Church  law,  or  United  States  law  is  supreme,  and  may  not  be  the 
only  question  involved. 

"Peter  Alagona:  S.  Thomas  Aquinatis  Summae  Theologiae  Compendium 
(Lutetiae  Parisiorum,  1620).  'By  command  of  God  it  is  lawful  to  kill  an 
innocent  person,  to  steal,  or  to  commit  fornication ;  because  he  is  the  Lord  of 
life  and  death  and  all  things;  and  it  is  due  to  him  thus  to  fulfil  his  com- 
mand.9 " — Ex-prima  Secundae,  Quaest,  9U. 

"Charles  Anthony  Casnedi:  Crisis  Theologica.  Ulissypone,  1711.  So 
far  from  being  false,  I  hold  it  to  be  most  true,  that  a  man  sins  not,  when  he 
does  that  which  he  considers  to  be  right,  without  any  remorse  or  scruple 
of  conscience." — Tom.  i,  Disp.  7,  sect.  3,  §  2,  n.  1U9. 

"What  is  the  seal  of  the  sacramental  confession?  It  is  the  obligation  or 
duty  of  concealing  those  things  which  are  learned  from  sacramental  confes- 
sion. "  "Can  a  case  be  given,  in  which  it  is  lawful  to  break  the  sacramental 
seal?  Answer:  It  cannot;  although  the  life  or  safety  of  a  man  depended 
thereon,  or  even  the  destruction  of  the  commonwealth;  nor  can  the 
supreme  pontiff  give  dispensation  in  this;  so  that,  on  that  account,  this 
secret  of  the  seal  is  more  binding  than  the  obligation  of  an  oath,  a  vow,  a 
natural  secret,  etc.;  and  that  by  the  positive  will  of  God."  "Dens,  vol.  vi." 
"We  shall  find  this  strong  language  to  mean  that  the  priests  keep  the  secret 
or  not,  as  it  promotes  the  interest  of  the  Church!"  "What  answer,  then, 
ought  a  confessor  to  give,  when  questioned  concerning  a  truth,  which  he 
knows  from  sacramental  confession  only?  Answer:  He  ought  to  answer 
that  he  does  not  know  it,  and,  if  necessary,  to  confirm  the  same  with  an  oath. 
Objection:  It  is  in  no  case  lawful  to  tell  a  lie;  but  that  confessor  would  be 
guilty  of  a  lie,  because  he  knows  the  truth;  therefore,  etc.  Answer:  I  deny 
the  minor,  because  such  a  confessor  is  questioned  as  a  man;  but  now  he  does 
not  know  that  truth  as  a  man.  though  he  knows  it  as  God,  says  St.  Thomas, 
and  that  is  the  free  and  natural  meaning  of  the  answer;  for  when  he  is  asked, 
or  when  he  answers  outside  confession,  he  is  considered  as  a  man."  "What 
if  a  confessor  were  directly  asked  whether  he  knows  it  through  sacramental 


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confession?  Answer:  In  this  case  he  ought  to  give  no  answer;  reject  the 
question  as  impious;  or  he  could  even  say,  absolutely  not  relatively  to  the 
question,  I  know  nothing;  because  the  word  /  restricts  it  to  human  knowl- 
edge." Dens.  "But  if  any  one  should  disclose  his  sins  to  a  confessor,  with 
the  intention  of  mocking  him,  or  of  drawing  him  into  an  alliance  with  him 
in  the  execution  of«a  bad  design  ?f  Answer:  The  seal  does  not  result  there- 
from, because  the  confession  is  not  sacramental.  Thus,  as  Dominick  Soto 
relates,  it  has-been  decided  at  Rome,  in  a  case  in  which  some  one  went  to  a 
confessor  with  the  intention  of  drawing  him  into  a  conspiracy  against  the 
Pope.  In  fine,  all  things  are  reduced  indirectly  to  the  seal,  by  the  revealing 
of  which  the  sacrament  would  be  rendered  odious,  according  to  the  man- 
ners of  the  country  and  the  changes  of  the  times;  and  thus  Steyart  observes, 
that  some  things  are  at  one  time  opposed  to  the  seal,  which  at  another  time 
are  not  considered  as  such."  Dens.  "So,  we  find,  that  while  the  seal  would 
prevent  a  Romish  priest  from  disclosing  a  conspiracy,  which  was  designed 
against  the  lives  of  the  citizens  or  Government  of  the  United  States,  he  is 
free  to  violate  it  at  any  time,  when  t*he  Pope  or  interests  of  his  church  require 
it.  Hence  a  papist  can  enter  a  confession  of  his  intention  to  take  the  life  of 
a  particular  individual,  either  by  assassination  or  poison,  in  our  country,  and 
return  after  the  commission  of  the  deed,  make  a  confession  of  the  fact,  and 
be  absolved  from  the  crime!" — Delisser. 

"Thomas  Aquinas,  the  leading  theologian  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  teaches 
that :  'It  is  much  more  grievous  to  corrupt  faith  which  is  the  source  and 
life  of  the  soul,  than  to  corrupt  money,  which  only  tends  to  the  relief  of  the 
body.  Hence,  if  coiners  and  malefactors  are  justly  put  to  death  by  the 
secular  authority,  much  more  may  heretics,  not  only  be  excommunicated,  but 
put  to  death." — "S£.  Thorn.,  2nd  9t  xiy  art.  3." 

"A  man  proscribed  by  the  Pope  must  be  put  to  death  everywhere;  for  the 
Pope  has  one  jurisdiction  indirect  to  the  least,  over  the  globe,  even  to  the 
temporal." — Musenbaum. 

"Whatever  man  of  the  people,  not  to  have  other  remedy,  we  can  kill  him 
who  tyrannically  usurps  power;  for  he  is  a  public  enemy." — Emmanuel  Sa. 

"Evidently  it  is  lawful  for  any  man  to  assassinate  a  tyrant,  if  having 
become  powerful  at  the  summit  of  power  and  not  having  other  means  by 
which  we  can  cease  the  tyranny." — Andrew  Delrio. 

"For  we  do  not  esteem  those  homicides  who,  burning  with  zeal  for  their 
Catholic  mother  against  excommunicated  persons,  may  have  happened  to 
slay  any  of  them." — Pope  Urban. 

"I  shall  never  consider  that  man  to  have  done  wrong,  who,  favoring  the 
public  wishes,  should  attempt  to  kill  him,  who  may  deservedly  be  considered 
as  a  tyrant.  To  put  them  to  death,  is  not  only  lawful,  but  a  laudable  and  a 
glorious  action." — De  Rege  et  Regis  Institutione  Libri  Tres  Moguntiae  1605. 
(UUO  Ed  Mus  Brit.) 

"Subjects  are  by  no  authority  constrained  to  pay  the  fidelity  which  they 
have  sworn  to  a  Christian  prince  who  opposeth  God  and  his  saints,  or  vio- 
lateth  their  precepts." — Urban  II. 

"By  advice  of  this  venerable  lady  and  holy  prioress,  on  whom  many  of  the 
wives  of  our  National  representatives,  and  even  grave  senators,  looked  as  an 
example  of  piety  and  chastity,  she  cut  her  hair,  dressed  her  in  a  smart  look- 
ing waiter's  jacket  and  trousers,  and  with  the  best  recommendations  for 
intelligence  and  capacity,  applied  for  a  situation  as  waiter  in  Gadsby's  Hotel, 
in  Washington  City.  This  smart  and  tidy  looking  young  man  got  instant 
employment.  .  .  .  Those  senators  on  whom  he  waited,  not  suspecting 
that  he  had  the  ordinary  curiosity  of  servants  in  general,  were  entirely 
thrown  off  their  guard,  and  in  their  conversations  with  one  another  seemed 
to  forget  their  usual  caution.  Such,  in  short,  was  their  confidence  in  him, 
that  their  most  important  papers  and  letters  were  left  loose  upon  the  table, 


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satisfied  by  saying,  as  they  went  out:  "Theodore,  take  care  of  my  room 
and  papers.'  .  .  .  Now  it  was  know  whether  Henry  Clay  was  a  gambler; 
whether  Daniel  Webster  was  a  libertine;  whether  John  C.  Calhoun  was  an 
honest  but  credulous  man.  ...  In  fact  this  lay  sister  in  male  uniform, 
but  a  waiter  in  Cadsby's  Hotel,  was  enabled  to  give  more  correct  information 
of  the  actual  state  of  things  in  this  country,  through  the  general  of  tl^e 
Jesuit  order  in  Rome,  than  the  whole  corps  of  diplomats  from  foreign  coun- 
tries then  residing  at  our  seat  of  Government. " — Hogan-Alberger. 

"It  will  be  lawful  for  an  ecclesiastic,  or  one  of  a  religious  order,  to  kill  a 
caluminator  who  threatens  to  spread  atrocious  accusations  against  his  reli- 
gion. " — Tom.  ii,  Lib.  viii,  c.  32,  n.  118. 

"If  you  endeavor  to  ruin  my  reputation.  .  .  .  And  I  'can  not  by  any 
means  avert  th!s  injury  of  character,  unless  I  kill  you  secretly,  may  I  law- 
fully do  it?     Bannez  asserts  that  I  may. 

"Still  the  calumniator  should  first  be  warned  that  he  desist  from  the 
slander;  and  if  he  will  not,  he  should  be  killed,  not  openly,  on  account  of  the 
SCANDAL,  but  secretly." — Cens.,  pp.  319-320. 

It  is  a  peculiar  fact  that  the  slayer  of  McKinley  is  denounced  as  and 
proven  an  anarchist  and  on  the  trial  he  admitted  he  was  educated  in  a 
Catholic*school.  Through  the  teachings  noted,  we  have  anarchy  regulated  by 
the  church  through  the  confessional. 

We  must  not  be  too  sure  that  the  "know  nothing"  campa'gn  of  1856  did 
no-  inspire  and  develop  the  immortal  Lincoln,  upon  whose  moral  stamina  and 
fidelity  the  Republican  party  went  into  power. 

"In  1855  the  Florence  Gazette,  an  Alabama  paper,  thus  addressed  its 
readers:  'And,  pray,  who  are  these  hypocrites?  Most  of  them  are  neither 
Episcopalians,  Lutherans,  Presbyterians,  Baptists,  Methodists,  nor  Congrega- 
tionalists — men  of  no  religion,  who  have  no  church  (Lincoln  had  none),  who 
never  say  their  prayers,  who  do  not  read  their  Bible,  who  live  God-defying 
lives  every  day  of  their  sinful  existence.  We  say  these  are  the  men,  with 
fac°s  as  long  as  their  dark  lanterns,  with  the  whites  of  their  eyes  turned 
u  t  in  holy  horror  at  the  Catholics,  while  they  prate  all  sorts  of  nonsense 
about  Protestant  America/  " 

Again:  "Men  who  have  never  before  on  the  face  of  God's  green  earth 
shown  any  interest  in  religion,  or  taken  any  part  with  Christ  or  His  Kingdom 
— men  who  are  the  Devil's  own,  belonging  to  the  Devil's  church.  These  are 
the  defamers  of  Catholicism,  and  the  champions  of  Protestantism." — Chap- 
man. 

(".  .  .  The:  journals,  the  religious  organizations,  and  the  political 
parties,  were  all  immeasurably  subservient  to  the  Slave  Power." — Greeley.) 

"It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  the  national  platforms  of  the  Democratic 
party,  1848  and  1852,  are  precisely  the  same  on.  the  question  of  slavery,  with 
the  exception  that  the  latter  connects  itself  with  the  compromise  measure  of 
1850.  During  the  presidential  contest  of  1848,  Mr.  Yancey,  of  Alabama, 
published  an  address  to  the  people,  in  wlr'ch  we  find  a  startling  disclosure. 
Let  it  be  remembered  that  he  was  a  member  of  the  National  Democratic 
Convention  of  1848,  and  a  member  of  the  committee  on  the  platform.  He 
states  in  the  address  that  it  was  proposed  in  this  committee  to  amend  the 
resolution  which  denies  to  Congress  any  'power  over  slavery  in  the  States-' 
by  inserting  after  the  word  States  the  words,  'or  Territories,'  so  as  to  make 
the  resolution  deny,  unequivocally  deny,  the  power  of  Congress  over  slavery 
either  in  the  States  or  Territories;  but  the  amendment  was  rejected  in  com- 
mittee, by  a  vote  of  seventeen  to  ten.  We  have,  therefore,  the  authority  of 
Mr.  Yancey  for  asserting  that  the  platform  committee  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Convention  of  1848,  actually  voted  aga'nst  a  resolution  denying  the 
power  of  Congress  over  slavery  in  the  Territories.  But  this  is  not  ail.  Mr. 
Yancey  states  that,  failing  to  procure  so  important  an  amendment  in   the 


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committee,  he  offered,  in  open  convention,  the  following  resolution,  which 
was  deliberately  rejected,  by  a  vote  of  two  hundred  and  sixteen  to  thirty-six, 
to-wit:  'Resolved,  further.  That  the  doctrine  of  non-interference  with  the 
rights  of  property  of  any  portion  of  the  people  of  this  confederacy,  be  it  in 
the  States  or  Territories,  by  any  other  than  the  parties  interested  in  them, 
is  the  true  Republican  doctrine  recognized  by  this  body/ — Flag  of  the  Union." 
"If  we  could  believe  the  assertions  and  interpretations  of  the  anti-American 
party  respecting  the  American  platform  on  slavery,  we  would  be  compelled  to 
conclude  that  the  Democrats  knowingly  stood  on  notoriously  unsound  plat- 
forms in  the  days  of  their  glory.  Come,  gentlemen,  be  honest,  though  you 
may  be  able  to  secure  pardon  for  your  manifold  sins  at  the  feet  of  the  Pope, 
in  whose  service  you  now  make  war  against  the  best  interests  of  the  religion 
of  your  fathers  and  the  land  of  your  birth.  The  platform  of  the  Anti- 
American  members  of  the   Thirty-fourth   Congress,   mis-called   Democratic, 

LEAVES  AN  OPENING  FOR  THE   NORTHERN  MAN   TO  ADVOCATE  A  CERTAIN  OPINION 

and  the  southern  man  the  opposite.  Does  it  say,  we  deny  to  Congress 
any  power  over  slavery  in  the  States  or  Territories?  Not  a  word  of  the 
kind.  Their  resolution  runs  thus :  'Resolved,  That  the  Democratic  members 
of  the  House  of  Representatives,  though  in  a  temporary  minority  in  this 
body,  deem  this  a  fit  occasion  to  tender  their  fellow-citizens  of  tHe  whole 
Union  their  heartfelt  congratulations  on  the  triumph,  in  the  recent  elections 
in  several  of  the  Northern,  Eastern,  and  Western,  as  well  as  Southern  States, 
of  the  principles  of  the  Kansas-Nebraska  bill,  and  the  doctrines  of  civil  and 
religious  liberty.'  Will  not  this  make  the  people  appear  as  natural  sons  of 
Solomon?  How  instructive!  Pray,  what  are  the  principles  of  the  Kansas- 
Nebraska  bill?  The  resolution  does  not  so  much  as  name  one.  What  is 
called  squatter  sovereignty  is  advocated  in  the  North,  and  that  which  is  the 
opposite  in  the  South,  and  both  may  lustily  talk  on,  for  the  resolution  is  as 
silent  as  death  on  the  character  of  the  principles  of  the  bill.  In  short,  the 
whole  is  designed  to  deceive;  to  let  the  Northern  man  believe  this,  and  the 
Southern  man  that.  Such  is  the  corruption  of  the  Anti-American  members 
of  Congress. "  (Here,  two  years  before  the  Lincoln-Douglas  debates,  a  sug- 
gestion by  a  Southern  Know-Nothing,  the  essence  of  the  very  question  which 
Lincoln  propounded  to  Douglas,  split  the  Democratic  party,  and  made  Lin- 
coln President.) 

"If  individuals,  however,  derive  pleasure  from  being  the  dupes  of  poli- 
tical knaves,  we  have  no  inclination  to  rob  them  of  their  happiness.  If 
Southern  men  believe  that  the  Congress  platform  is  sufficiently  explicit,  their 
faith  afford  them  as  much  satisfaction  as  if  it  were  founded  on  sober 
reality."  "Having  shown  how  the  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party  disposed 
of  the  relation  of  Congress  to  the  territories  on  the  slavery  question  in  1848, 
and  noticed  the  silence  of  the"  anti-American  Congress  platform  of  1855  on 
the  same  subject,  we  are  now  ready  to  review  a  portion  of  the  first  resolution 
'of  the  Democratic  and  anti-Know-Nothing  party  of  Alabama*  persuaded  that 
it  is  an  outrage  on  truth,  a  disgrace  to  the  originators,  and  a  clap-trap  for 
foreign  influence.  We  are  informed  that  'the  proceedings  of  the  Alabama 
convention  were  remarkably  harmonious;  that  the  Georgia  platform  was 
adopted;  and  that  the  delegates  were  instructed,  in  case  the  National  Con- 
vention fails  to  adopt  an  equivalent  platform,  to  retire  from  that  body.'  Mr. 
W.  L.  Yancey  has  the  honor  of  offering  the  resolution.  The  first  reads  thus : 
'The  perfect  equality  of  privileges — civil,  religious,  and  political — of  every 
citizen  of  our  country,  without  reterence  to  the  place  of  his  birth. 
.  .  .  .'  What  an  untruth!  'The  perfect  equality  of  civil  privileges'  is  at 
war  with  the  Constitution  of  the  country.  Can  a  foreigner  by  birth  sit  in  the 
Presidential  chair?  No.  The  fifth  section  of  the  Constitution,  Article  II, 
reads  thus:     'No  person,  except  a  natural-born  citizen,  or  a  citizen  of  the 


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United  States  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  Constitution,  shall  be  eligible 
to  the  office  of  President/ 

"Can  a  foreigner  by  birth  become  Vice-President  of  the  United  States? 
No.  The  third  article,  'Amendments  to  the  Constitution,  article  xii,  Laws  of 
the  United  States/  speaks  as  follows:  'No  person  constitutionally  ineligible 
to  the  office  of  President,  shall  be  eligible  to  that  of  Vice-President  of  the 
United  States/  In  the  1st  article,  2d  section,  No.  2,  we  are  thus  informed: 
'No  person  shall  be  a  Representative  who  shall  not  have  attained  to  the  age 
of  twenty-five  years,  and  have  been  seven  years  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States/  Well  may  we  here  ask,  is  'the  perfect  equality  of  civil  privileges' 
entitled  to  the  merit  of  an  ingenious  conceit?  But  we  are  not  surprised! 
Men  who  can  afford  to  play  the  part  of  traitors  to  their  country  and  Protes- 
tantism, for  the  sake,  the  glorious  sake,  of  maintaining  a  corrupt  organiza- 
tion by  the  aid  of  the  lowest  class  of  the  foreign  population,  can  very  easily 
afford  to  humbug,  or  at  least  try  to  do  so,  the  uninformed  citizen  by  birth. 
What  next?  This:  'The  Democratic  and  Anti -Know-Nothing'  Sanhedrim 
declares  itself  'in  favor  of  the  perfect  equality  of  religious  privileges/  The 
Mormon  will  not  record  any  particular  objection  to  this;  and  as  to  the  Rom- 
anist, he  will  look  on  the  declaration  as  a  clear  endorsement  of  his  right  to 
embrace  in  his  creed  the  canon  law,  the  decisions  of  the  councils,  and  the 
claim  of  the  Pope  to  depose  rulers,  and  break  up  the  oath  of  allegiance.  The 
canon  law  speaks  thus  of  the  Holy  Father:  'He  has  plentitude  of  power,  and 
is  above  law/ — Gilbert,  2,  103.  And  this  is  sanctioned  by  'the  Democratic 
and  Anti-Know-Nothing  party  of  Alabama/  The  third  General  Council  of 
Lateran,  in  its  sixteenth  canon,  unequivocally  styles  'an  oath  contrary  to 
ecclesiastical  utility,  not  an  oath,  but  perjury. — Labbeus,  13,  1*26.'  And  this 
is  sanctioned,  too,  by  'the  Democratic  and  Anti-Know-Nothing  party  of  Ala- 
bama!' Pope  Gregory  says:  'Ever  bearing  in  mind,  the  universal  Church 
suffers  from  every  novelty,  as  well  as  the  admonition  of  Pope  St.  Agatho, 
that  from  what  has  been  regularly  defined  nothing  can  be  taken  away — no 
innovation  introduced  there,  no  addition  made — but  that  it  must  be  preserved 
untouched  as  to  words  and  meaning/ — P.  Greg,  XVI,  Epistola  Encyclica,  ad 
omnes,  Patriarches,  Primates,  Archiepiscopos  et  Episcopos,  anno  1832.  A 
bishop  of  the  Romish  Church  in  the  United  States,  in  virtue  of  the  decision  of 
the  Council  of  Trent,  excommunicated  the  trustees  of  the  St.  Louis  Church, 
State  of  New  York,  because  they  would  not  violate  the  laws  of  their  State, 
and  tamely  submit  to  the  teaching  of  the  Council  of  Trent.  The  Archbishop  of 
Mexico,  in  the  year  1855,  refused  to  submit  to  the  civil  law  until  he  should 
hear  from  the  Pope — thereby  giving  the  clearest  evidence  possible  that  allegi- 
ance to  a  foreign  power  was  above  that  which  he  owed  to  Mexico.  Roman 
Catholics,  however,  by  the  decision  of  the  'Democratic  and  Anti-Know-Noth- 
ing'  Sanhedrim  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  are  at  liberty  to  believe  all  this,  and 
to  show  their  faith  by  their  works.  Nor  is  this  all;  the  delegates  are  in- 
structed to  retire  from  the  National  Convention,  should  it  fail  to  sanction 
such  privileges  to  Roman  Catholics.  A  little  more  of  this,  and  we  would  not 
give  a  jews-harp  for  the  glory  of  Protestantism  in  the  United  States.  Sup- 
pose the  Methodists,  Presbyterians,  and  Baptists  should  unite,  and  declare 
oaths  of  allegiance  perjury,  if  in  conflict  with  the  ecclesiastical  policy  of  the 
North  on  the  subject  of  slavery — should  declare  all  slaveholders  heretics,  and 
record  their  determination  to  hang,  imprison,  or  exterminate  them  at  a  suit- 
able time;  would  Southern  'Democratic  and  Anti-Know-Nothing'  meetings 
instruct  their  delegates  to  leave  a  National  Convention,  provided  it  should 
fail  to  acknowledge  such  religious  privileges,  0,  no;  their  Anti-Know-Noth- 
ing  skill  would  at  once  enable  them  to  see  that  such  an  organization,  with 
such  an  object  and  faith,  ought  not  to  be  tolerated.  When  honest  men,  with 
clear  spectacles,  read  that  which  precedes  and  that  which  follows,  we  think 
that  they  will  heartily  endorse  every  word  of  our  representation.     The  Ian- 


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guage  of  the  Rambler  is:  'You  ask,  if  he  (the  Pope)  were  lord  in  the  land, 
and  you  were  in  a  minority,  what  would  he  do  to  you?  That,  we  say,  would 
entirely  depend  on  circumstances.  If  it  would  benefit  the  cause  of  Catholi- 
cism, he  would  tolerate  you;  if  expedient,  he  would  imprison  you,  banish  you, 
fine  you,  possibly  he  might  even  hang  you;  but  be  assured  of  one  thing,  he 
would  never  tolerate  you  for  the  sake  of  the  glorious  principles  of  civil  and 
religious  liberty/  We  propose  that  all  the  members  of  the  various  Protestant 
Churches  who  are  acting  with  the  Anti-American  party,  send  delegates  to 
the  National  Convention,  under  positive  instruction  to  leave  if  it  should  fail 
to  put  in  the  first  article  of  its  platform  all  manner  of  privileges  for  Roman 
Catholics — such  as  that  of  talking  as  they  please,  writing  as  they  please,  and 
acting  as  they  please.  Verily  the  old  man  at  Rome  has  wonderful  influence 
in  this  country!  In  a  word,  the  resolution  of  the  Democratic  and  Anti- 
Know-Nothing  party  of  Alabama  declares  that  the  privileges  allowed  to  one 
Church  must  be  allowed  to  all — a  perfect  equality  must  be  encouraged.  The 
Romish  Church  claims  the  right  to  interfere  in  civil  matters;  and  when  we 
read  of  a  Northern  Protestant  Church  doing  so,  we  hope,  for  the  sake  of 
common  consistency,  that  the  Anti-Americans  of  Alabama  will  allow  the 
Americans  to  talk,  and  hold  their  tongues  as  if  in  a  house  of  death.  The 
Northern  Methodists  claimed  the  right  a  few  years  ago  to  put  their  fingers 
on  civil  affairs;  and  because  of  this,  the  Methodists  of  Alabama  unanimously 
protested;  and  now  more  than  a  few  of  the  same  generation  of  Methodists 
vote  against  men  who  are  contending  for  the  principle  on  which  they  stood 
when  the  Church  was  divided.  If  true  to  the  meaning  of  the  resolution  be- 
fore us,  and  determined  to  vote  the  Anti-American  ticket,  they  ought  to  ask 
pardon  at  the  hands  of  the  North,  and  gracefully  return.  In  closing  this 
chapter,  we  must  be  allowed  to  say,  if  we  should  live  to  see  some  of  the 
children  of  the  Anti-Americans  punished  according  to  the  plan  of  St. 
Dominic,  we  are  certain  we  would  not  shed  a  tear  on  account  of  the  glorious 
deeds  of  their  fathers.  To  say  more,  would  be  to  indulge  in  cruelty;  and  so 
we  close  our  review  of  a  portion  of  the  first  resolution  of  a  'Democratic  and 
Anti-Know-Nothing  meeting,  held  in  Montgomery,  Alabama/  and  with  it 
the  chapter." — Chapman. 

President  Pierce  traded  the  Postmaster  Generalship  for  Catholic  votes, 
and  fastened  the  Catholic  vote  upon  his  party.  The  opinion  in  the  Dred 
Scott  case  was  rendered  by  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  a  Cath- 
olic, and  was  concurred  in  by  Mr.  Justice  Campbell,  a  Catholic  from  Ala- 
bama. "Justice  Nelson,  of  New  York,  concurred  also  in  the  conclusion  of  the 
court,  and  favored  an  astonished  world  with  the  following  sample  of  judi- 
cial logic:  'If  Congress  possesses  power,  under  the  Constitution,  to  abolish 
slavery  in  a  Territory,  it  must  necessarily  possess  the  like  power  to  establish 
it.  It  can  not  be  a  one-sided  power,  as  may  suit  the  convenience  or  particular 
views  of  the  advocates.  It  is  a  power,  if  it  exists  at  all,  over  the  whole  sub- 
ject/ But  the  power  against  which  Mr.  Nelson  is  contending  is  a  power  to 
prohibit  by  legislation  certain  forms  of  injustice  and  immorality.  If,  then, 
according  to  his  reasoning,  Congress  should,  by  law,  prohibit  adultery,  theft, 
burglary,  and  murder  in  the  Territories  of  the  Union,  it  would  thereby  affirm 
and  establish  its  rights  to  reward  and  encourage  these  crimes."  Not  unlike 
the  way  the  Confessional  works.  . 

Mr.  Justice  Curtis  of  Massachusetts,  in  his  ^  dissenting  opinion,  says : 
"Where  else  can  we  find,  under  the  laws  of  any  civilized  country,  the  power 
to  introduce  and  permanently  continue  diverse  systems  of  foreign  municipal 
law  for  holding  persons  in  Slavery."  Exactly  what  the  Catholic  Church 
were  then  trying  to  engraft  on  the  United  States,  for  which  this  would  have 
been  an  ample  precedent.  Mr.  Justice  Curtis  cites  Mr.  Justice  Gaston  of 
North  Carolina:  "According  to  the  laws  of  this  State,  all  human  beings 
within  it,  who  are  not  slaves,  fall  within  two  classes.    Whatever  distinctions 


—15— 

may  have  existed  in  the  Roman  laws  between  citizens  and  free  inhabitants, 
they  are  unknown  to  our  institutions." 

"Col.  Benton,  himself  a  life-long  slaveholder  and  upholder  of  slavery,  thus 
forcibly  refutes,  from  a  conservative  and  legal  standpoint,  the  Calhoun- 
Yancey  dogma.  'The  prohibition  of  slavery  in  a  territory  is  assumed  to  work 
an  inequality  in  the  States,  allowing  one  part  to  carry  its  property  with  it — 
the  other,  not.  This  is  a  mistake — a  great  error  of  fact — the  source  of  great 
errors  of  deduction.  The  citizens  of  all  the  States,  free  and  slave,  are  pre- 
cisely equal  in  their  capacity  to  carry  their  property  with  them  into  terri- 
tories. Each  may  carry  whatever  is  property  by  the  laws  of  nature;  neither 
can  carry  that  which  is  only  property  by  statute  law;  and  the  reason  is,  be- 
cause he  can  not  carry  with  him  the  Law  which  makes  it  property."  The 
analogy  with  the  Alabama  resolution  "the  perfect  equality  of  privileges — 
civil,  religious  and  political — of  every  citizen  of  our  country,  without  refer- 
ence to  the  place  of  his  birth,"  can  hardly  be  mistaken. 

Mr.  Justice  Curtis  said:  "On  so  grave  a  subject  as  this,  I  feel  obliged 
to  say  that,  in  my  opinion,  such  an  exertion  of  judicial  power  transcends  the 
limits  of  the  authority  of  the  Court,  as  described  by  its  repeated  decisions, 
and,  as  I  understand,  acknowledged  in  this  opinion  of  a  majority  of  the 
Court." 

"The  New  York  Herald,  Dec.  9,  1860,  has  a  Washington  dispatch  of  the 
8th  relative  to  a  caucus  of  Southern  Senators  then  being  held  at  the  Capitol, 
which  said :  "The  current  of  opinion  seems  to  set  strongly  in  favor  of  a 
reconstruction  of  the  Union,  without  the  New  England  States.  The  latter 
States  are  supposed  to  be  so  fanatical  in  their  views  as  to  render  it  impossi- 
ble that  there  should  be  any  peace  under  a  government  to  which  they  were 
parties." 

"And  Gov.  Letcher,  of  Virginia,  in  his  message  of  January  7,  1861,  after 
suggesting  'that  a  commission  to  consist  of  two  of  our  most  intelligent,  dis- 
creet, and  experienced  statesmen/  should  be  appointed  to  visit  the  Legisla- 
tures of  the  Free  States  to  urge  the  repeal  to  the  Personal  Liberty  bills  which 
had  been  passed,  said:  'In  renewing  the  recommendation  at  this  time,  I 
annex  a  modification,  and  that  is,  that  commissioners  shall  not  be  sent  to 
either  of  the  New  England  States.  The  occurrences  of  the  last  two  months 
have  satisfied  me  the  New  England  Puritanism  has  no  respect  for  human 
constitutions,  and  so  little  regard  for  the  Union  that  they  would  not  sacrifice 
their  prejudice,  or  smother  their  resentments,  to  perpetuate  it." 

"Wm.  H.  Russell,  of  the  London  Times,  in  his  'Diary,  North  and  South/ 
writing  at  Charleston,  April  18,  1861,  says:  .  .  .  .  Again,  cropping  out 
of  the  dead  level  of  hate  to  the  Yankee,  grows  its  climax  in  the  profession, 
from  nearly  every  one  of  the  guests,  that  he  would  prefer  a  return  to  British 

rule  to  any  reunion  with  New  England It  is  not  only  over  the 

wine-glass — why  call  it  a  cup? — that  they  ask  for  a  Prince  to  reign  over 
them.  I  have  heard  the  wish  repeatedly  expressed  within  the  last  two  days 
that  we  could  spare  them  one  of  our  young  Princes,  but  never  in  jest  or  in 
any  frivolous  manner." 

On  the  fall  of  Fort  Sumter,  the  Roman  Catholic  bishop  of  Charleston 
crdered  a  Te  Duem,  and  later  absolved  Catholics  from  their  allegiance  to 
the  United  States. 

The  Pope,  in  writing  to  Mr.  Jefferson  Davis,  on  December  3,  1860, 
acknowledging  "letters  dated  the  23d  of  the  month  of  September  last,"  says: 
"And  from  the  same  most  clement  Lord  of  compassions  we  entreat  that  He 
will  illuminate  your  Honor  with  the  light  of  His  Divine  grace,  and  join  you 
to  us  in  perfect  charity." 

"The  Pastoral  letter  sent  out  to  be  read  in  all  the  Roman  Catholic 
Churches  by  the  Fourth  Roman  Catholic  Provincial  Council,  which  met  at 


—16— 

Cincinnati  on  March  20,  1882,  reviews  the  progress  of  religion,  and  holds 
that  all  men  are  not  created  equal,  but  some  should  obey  others." 

"When  the  Secession  Convention  of  the  Southern  Confederacy  met  at 
Montgomery,  Ala.,  Dec.  9,  1860,  Mr.  Memminger  presented  two  flags  in  each 
of  which  was  the  cross,  to  take  the  place  of  the  stars  and  stripes.  One  of 
them  being  sent  by  some  Roman  Catholic  young  ladies  from  Charleston, 
South  Carolina.  In  his  remarks  he  said:  'But,  sir,  I  have  no  doubt  that 
there  was  another  idea  associated  with  it  in  their  minds — a  religious  one; 
and,  although  we  have  not  yet  seen  in  the  heaven  the  "in  hoc  signo  vinces" 
written  upon  the  labarum  of  Constantine,  yet  the  same  sign  has  been  mani- 
fested to  us  upon  the  tablets  of  the  earth;  FOR  WE  ALL  KNOW  that  it  has 
been  by  the  AID  of  revealed  religion  that  we  have  achieved  over  FANATI- 
CISM the  victory  which  we  this  day  witness;  and  it  is  becoming,  on  this 
occasion,  THAT  THE  DEBT  OF  THE  SOUTH  TO  THE  CROSS  SHOULD 
BE  THUS  RECOGNIZED/  This  was  the  Latin  or  Papal  cross,  with  the 
stars  of  the  rebel  States  upon  it,  which  had  swallowed  them  all,  the  cross  in 
blue,  upon  a  field  of  blood.  The  objection  to  such  a  flag  from  Protestant  and 
Jews  caused  them  for  awhile  to  adhere  to  the  'stars  and  bars/  copied  after 
the  'old  flag';  but  the  secret  compact  and  alliance  of  the  chief  conspirators 
with  Rome  must  be  kept,  and  the  cross  must  be  in  the  flag  somehow,  and  the 
stars  on  the  cross  must  be  retained;  but  to  silence  the  murmurings  and  ob- 
jections of  the  Protestants  and  Jews  the  cross  was  made  diagonal — a  St. 
Andrew's  cross — with  the  intention  in  the  future  to  restore  the  Latin  or 
Papal  cross  to  its  original  place.  It  was  this  flag  that  was  presented  to  the 
rebel  army  by  Beauregard,  the  Roman  Catholic  General,  and  that  floated  at 
the  masthead  of  the  Alabama,  when  commanded  by  the  Jesuit,  Raphael 
Semmes,  which  was  sunk  by  the  Kearsarge." — Edwin  A.  Sherman, 

"In  1857,  among  other  questions  in  which  that  of  intervention  or  non- 
intervention on  the  part  of  Congress  in  the  Territories  was  discussed,  was 
that  of  subduing  the  'Mormon  rebellion. '  Mr.  Douglas  was  in  favor  of  ending 
the  difficulty  by  annulling  the  act  establishing  the  Territory  of  Utah.  Mr. 
Lincoln  took  issue  with  him  on  that  point,  and  declared  himself  in  favor  of 
coercing  the  Mormon  population  into  obedience  to  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment and  its  laws,  which  declaration  a  few  years  afterwards  found  force 
in  executive  statement,  when  President,  in  December,  1864.    He  said :     'When 

AN   INDIVIDUAL,   IN   A  CHURCH   OR   OUT  OF   IT,   BECOMES    DANGEROUS    TO   THE 

public  interest,  he  must  be  checked/  He  understood  the  Mormon  hier- 
archy in  its  governmental  organization  and  its  attitude  towards  free  gov- 
ernment of  the  people  and  the  national  authority  to  be  precisely  like  that  of 
Rome." — Sherman, 

Congress  prohibited  polygamy  in  Utah,  then  a  Territory,  and  in  the  test 
case  before  the  Supreme  Court,  Mr.  Chief  Justice  Waite,  in  the  opinion  of 
the  court,  said: 

"Laws  are  made  for  the  government  of  the  actions,  and  while  they  can 
not  interfere  with  mere  religious  belief  and  opinions,  they  may  with  prac- 
tices. 

"As  a  law  of  the  organization  of  society  under  the  exclusive  dominion  of 
the  United  States,  it  is  provided  that  plural  marriages  shall  not  be  allowed. 
Can  a  man  exercise  his  practices  to  the  contrary  because  of  his  religious  be- 
lief? To  permit  this  would  be  to  make  the  professed  doctrines  of  religious 
belief  superior  to  the  law  of  the  land,  and  in  effect  to  permit  every  citizen  to 
become  a  law  unto  himself.  Government  could  exist  only  in  name  under  such 
circumstances." 

Under  this  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  we  may  not  take  away  the 
Roman  Catholics'  religious  opinion  or  belief  that  the  Pope,  Cardinal,  Arch- 
bishop, Bishop  or  Priest,  can  license  murder,  treason,  perjury,  and  other 
crimes,  or  forgive  the  same  subsequent  to  commission,  if  not  already  licensed; 


—17— 

• 

but  because  treason,  murder,  and  perjury  happen  to  be  crimes  in  this  coun- 
try, we  can  prohibit  all  sects  from  practicing  such  licensing  and  forgiveness. 

With  the  knowledge  that  such  practices  are  carried  on  here,  under  the 
excuse  that  is  a  part  of  their  religion,  we  simply  have  been  licensing  it  until 
we  may  find  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  claiming  a  prescriptive  right,  a 
r.ght  existing  and  practiced  in  this  country  at  the  time  of  forming  of  this 
Government,  and  thus  our  Constitution  -was  made  subject  to  these  practices 
then  existing  as  a  conceded  personal  right. 

If  this  be  their  theory  and  through  the  confessional  they  license  a  map 
to  kill,  or  absolve  him  from  guilt  for  assassinating  any  or  all  of  our  Presi- 
dents who  may  in  any  way  menace  their  institutions  or  the  least  of  its  inter- 
ests, we  never  having  in  any  way  complained  of  or  sought  to  stop  such  prac- 
tices, where  have  we  any  right  to  complain?  We, bargain  with  them  for 
votes  to  elect  our  Presidents.  If  we  do  happen  to  get  a  patriot  instead  of  a 
politician,  and  he  don't  suit  them,  why  haven't  they  under  the  license  and 
the  political  bargain  we  have  made  with  them,  presumably  to  deliver  value 
received  for  their  votes;  why  haven't  they  as  a  matter  of  practical  politics, 
and  that  is  the  basis  we  are  now  on  as  a  nation ;  why  haven't  they  a  right  to 
rescind  the  contract  by  assassinating  the  President  who  does  not  represent 
their  end  of  the  bargain?  If  I  kill  the  President,  I  am  subject  to  the  criminal 
statute  or  the  common  law,  not  having  availed  myself  by  joining  the  Catholic 
Church,  of  the  seal  of  the  confession,  by  which  the  Priest  can  effectually 
shield  me.  The  law  held  higher  than  our  law  and  recognized  logically  by 
us  AS  SUCH. 

What  then  was  Lincoln's  Great  Purpose?  What  comfort  is  there  in  the 
classic  of  Gettysburg  for  the  Roman  Catholic  Church?  "It  is  rather  for  us 
to  be  here  dedicated  to  the  GREAT  TASK  remaining  before  us,  that  from 
these  honored  dead  we  take  increased  devotion  to  that  cause  for  which  they 
here  gave  the  last  full  measure  of  devotion ;  that  we  here  highly  resolve  that 
these  dead  shall  not  have  died  in  vain;  that  this  Nation  under  God,  shall 
have  a  new  birth  of  FREEDOM,  and  that  Government  of  the  people,  by 
the  people,  and  for  the  people  shall  not  perish  from  the  earth." 

In  the  Providence  of  the  Almighty,  on  the  4th  day  of  July,  Luther  dis- 
puted to  his  Popish  antagonist,  the  Divine  right  of  the  Pope.  In  the  Provi- 
dence of  the  Almighty,  on  the  4th  day  of  July  the  United  States  disputed 
the  same  pretention.  Just  disputed  it.  Then  the  United  States  and  her  Pro- 
testants went  to  the  ballot-box  with  the  Pope  and  commenced  trading  offices 
and  power  for  votes.  Out  of  the  first  big  trade  they  got  the  civil  war.  and 
the  death  of  Lincoln.  The  flower  of  the  North  and  the  South  gone  to  bloody 
graves,  and  the  Democratic  party  wrecked  for  fifty  years.  We  are  in  the 
second  big  trade  now,  where  they  are  intrenched  in  the  Republican  party  as 
they  were  in  the  Democratic  party  at  the  beginning  of  the  war.  McKinley, 
the  second  great  menace  to  the  Church,  sleeps  at  Canton,  and  within  a  year 
"a  great  change  has  come  over  the  Republican  party  as  far  as  its  policy  and 
attitude  toward  the  Church  is  concerned."  McKinley's  death  was  necessary 
to  secure  that  change. 

Lincoln  outside  the  church;  stricken  in  a  theatre;  his  country's  unity 
menaced  by  the  open  hostility  of  the  Pope,  rang  true  to  the  Divine  purpose. 
He  did  not  think  it  "cheapened"  the  Almighty  to  put  npon  our  coins,  "In  God 
We  Trust,"  and  in  his  Administration  it  was  done.  Today  Americans,  patri- 
ots and  hypocrites  alike,  laud  him. 

It  remained  for  a  Protestant  churchman  to  take  from  our  coins  "In  God 
We  Trust,"  and  be  heralded  as  a  "prime  favorite  of  one  Cardinal,  several 
Archbishops,  and  a  cloud  of  Bishops."  Does  not  Protestant  America  owe  to 
Abraham  Lincoln  the  place  Abraham  Lincoln  gave  to  Washington  on  Febru- 
ary 22d,  1842?  "Washington  is  the  mightiest  name  of  earth — long  since 
mightiest  in  the  cause  of  civil  liberty;  still  mightiest  in  moral  reforma- 


— 18— 

tion.  On  that  name  no  eulogy  is  expected.  It  can  not  be.  To  add  brightness 
to  the  sun  or  glory  to  the  name  of  Washington  is  alike  impossible.  Let  none 
attempt  it. 

"In  solemn  awe  pronounce  the  name  and  in  its  naked,  deathless  splendor 
leave  it  shining  on."  At  that  time  he  little  dreamed  that  civil  and  religious 
liberty  in  this  country  had  not  been  achieved,  and  that  within  twenty  years 
the  Almighty  would  commission  hint  to  take  the  place  he  had  accorded  to 
Washington.  That  he  did  not  accomplish  that  mission  was  no  fault  of  his. 
That  it  has  not  been  accomplished  by  us  as  the  monument  we  owe  to  him,  is 
a  fault  of  ours. 

Under  the  Pierce  and  Buchanan  policy,  patriots  had  to  choose  between 
the  church  and  war.  If  the  Republican  party  continues  the  Roosevelt  policy 
with  reference  to  the  Catholic  Church,  patriots  will  have  to  choose  between 
the  Church  and  Socialism.  The  Church  helps  to  make  the  industrial  situation 
tense  as  both  a  capitalist  and  a  potent  influence  upon  the  labor  agitator  and 
the  individual  laborer.  She  continually  menaces  the  stability  of  our  form  of 
government  through  agitation  calculated  to  show  that  republican  institutions 
are  not  a  success.  It  was  her  policy  which  brought  on  the  war.  It  is  her 
policy  which  propogates  Socialism. 

In  the  great  hard  coal  strike  intervened  in  by  President  Roosevelt,  it 
was  within  the  power  of  the  Church*  to  incite  the  strike,  secure  one  of  her 
Prelates  on  the  Commission  to  assist  in  settling  it*  and  take  great  public 
credit  for  her  influence  in  settling  such  difficulties. 

"A  work  is  in  the  British  Museum,  called  'Formulae  Provisionum  diver- 
sarum:  a  G.  Passarello,  summo  studio  in  unum  collectae/  printed  at  Venice 
in  1596.  There  is  a  copy  of  these  'Secret  Instructions'  in  manuscript,  and  at 
the  end  of  it  is  this  significant  mandate:  'Let  them  be  denied  to  be  the  rules 
of  the  Society  of  Jesus,  if  ever  they  shall  be  imputed  to  us/  .  .  .  Chapter 
II  treats  of  the  way  to  become  familiar  with  the  great  in  any  country.  They 
are  told  to  manage  to  get  the  ear  of  those  in  authority,  and  then  secure 
their  hearts,  by  which  way  all  persons  will  become  our  creatures,  and  none 
will  dare  to  give  the  society  disquiet.  The  priests  are  to  wink  at  the  vices 
of  the  powerful,  and  to  encourage  their  inclinations,  whatever  they  may  be; 
but  this  is  to  be  done  with  generals,  always  avoiding  particulars."  Section 
4 :  "It  will  further  us  in  gaining  favor,  if  our  members  artfully  worm  them- 
selves by  the  interests  of  others  into  honorable  embassies  to  foreign  courts 
in  their  behalf,  but  especially  to  the  Pope  and  great  monarchs.  Further, 
great  care  must  be  taken  to  curry  favor  with  minions  of  the  great,  who,  by 
small  presents  and  many  offices  of  piety,  we  may  find  means  to  get  faithful 
intelligence  of  the  master's  inclinations  and  humors,  and  thus  be  better  qual- 
ified to  chime  their  tempers.  How  much  the  society  has  benefited  from  their 
engagements  in  marriage  treaties,  the  houses  of  Austria,  Bourbon,  Poland, 
and  other  kingdoms,  are  experimental  evidences.  Wherefore,  let  such  matches 
be  with  prudence  picked  out,  whose  parents  are  our  friends,  and  firmly  at- 
tached to  our  interests.  .  .  ."  Ladies  of  quality  are  easily  gained  by  the 
influence  of  the  women  of  their  bed-chamber.  By  all  means  pay  attention 
to  these,  for  thereby  there  will  be  no  secrets  in  the  family  but  what  we  shall 
have  disclosed  to  us.  .  .  ."  "In  directing  the  consciences  of  great  men, 
our  confessors  are  to  allow  the  greater  latitude  that  the  penitents  maybe 
allured  with  the  prospect  of  such  freedom,  will  depend  upon  our  direction 
and  counsel.  Princes,  Prelates,  and  all  who  are  capable  of  being  of  signal 
service  must  be  so  favored  as  to  be  made  partakers  of  all  the  merits  of  the 
society."  "Let  it  be  cunningly  instilled  into  the  people,  that  this  society^  is 
entrusted^  with  a  far  greater  power  in  absolving,  in  dispensing  fasts,  with 
with  paying  and  demanding  debts,  with  impediments  in  matrimony,  than 
any  other.  They  will  then  have  recourse  to  us,  and  thereby  lay  themselves 
under  the  strictest  obligations.     It  will  be  very  proper  to  give  them  handsome 


—19— 

entertainments,  to  address  them  in  a  complaisant  manner,  to  invite  them  to 
hear  orations,  sermons,"  etc.  "Let  proper  methods  be  used  to  get  know- 
ledge of  the  animosities  that  arise  amongst  great  men,  that  we  may  have 

A  FfNGER  IN  RECONCILING  THEM;  AND  GRADUALLY  BECOME  ACQUAINTED  WITH 
THEIR  SECRET  AFFAIRS,      .      .      ."   etC 

The  corresponding  section  in  the  edition  used  by  Mr.  Sherman  is  given 
thus:  "12.  It  will  be  very  convenient  to  take  to  our  care  the  reconcilia- 
tion of  the  great,  in  the  quarrels  and  enmities  that  divide  them;  then  by 
this  method  we  can  enter,  little  by  little,  into  the  acquaintance  of  their  most 
intimate  friends  and  secrets;  and  we  can  SERVE  ourselves  to  that  PARTY 
which  will  be  most  in  favor  of  that  which  we  present." 

"We  must  inculcate  this  doctrine  with  kings  and  princes,  that  the 
Catholic  faith  can  not  subsist  in  the  present  state,  without  politics; 
but  that  in  this,  it  is  necessary  to  proceed  with  much  certainty.  Of  this 
mode,  we  must  share  the  affection  of  the  great,  and  be  admitted  to  the 
most  secret  counsels." — Chap  XVIIy  3.  Sherman. 

"It  will  be  no  little  advantage  that  will  result,  by  secretly  and  prudently 
fomenting  dissensions  between  the  great,  ruining  or  augmenting  their  power. 
But  if  we  perceive  some  appearance  of  reconciliation  between  them,  then 
we  of  the  society  will  treat  and  act  as  pacificators;  that  it  shall  not  be  that 
any  others  will  anticipate  to  obtain  it." — XVII,  5.    Sherman. 

"But  if  we  do  not  hope  that  we  can  obtain  this,  supposing  that  it  is 
necessary  that  scandals  shall  come  in  the  world.  We  must  be  careful  to 
change  our  politics,  conforming  to  the  times,  and  excite  the  princes, 
friends  of  ours,  to  mutually  make  terrible  wars  that  everywhere 
THE  mediation  of  the  Society  will  be  implored;  that  we  may  be  em- 
ployed in  the  public  reconciliation,  for  it  will  be  the  cause  of  the  common 
good;  and  we  shall  be  recompensed  by  the  PRINCIPAL  ECCLESIASTICAL 
DIGNITIES;  and  the  BETTER  BENEFICIARIES.  9.  In  fine,  that  the 
Socrp*"-  afterwards  can  yet  count  upon  the  favor  and  authority  of  princes 
procuring  THAT  THOSE  WHO  DO  NOT  LOVE  US  SHALL  FEAR  US." 
—Chap.  XVII,  8-9. 

"Forasmuch  there  will  be  opportunity  and  conductive  notices  at  repeat- 
ed times,  that  the  distribution  of  honors  and  dignities  in  the  Republic  is  an 
act  of  justice;  and  that  in  a  great  manner  it  will  be  offending  God,  if  the 
princes  do  not  examine  themselves  and  cease  carrying  their  passions,  pro- 
testing  to  the  same  with  frequency  and  severity,  that  we  do  not  desire  to 
mix  in  the  administration  of  the  State;  but  when  it  shall  become  necessary 
to  so  express  ourselves  thus,  to  have  your  weight  to  fill  the  mission  that  is 
recommended.  Directly  that  the  sovereigns  are  well  convinced  of  this,  it 
will  be  very  convenient  to  give  an  idea  of  the  virtues  that  may  be  found  to 
adorn  those  that  are  selected  for  the  dignities  and  principal  public  changes; 
procuring  then  and  recommending  the  true  friends  of  the  company;  not- 
withstanding, we  must  not  make  it  openly  for  ourselves,  but  by  means  of 
our  friends  who  have  intimacy  with  the  prince  that  it  is  not  for  us  to  talk 
him,  into  the  disposition  of  making  them.1* — Chap.  IV,  2,  Sherman. 

"Among  the  peoples  where  our  fathers  reside,  we  must  have  physicians 
faithful  to  the  society,  whom  we  can  especially  recommend  to  the 
sick,  and  to  paint  under  an  aspect  very  superior  to  that  of  other  religious 
orders,  and  secure  direction  that  we  shall  be  called  to  assist  the  power 
ful,  particularly  in  the  Hour  of  death."  "That  the  confessors  shall  visit 
with  assiduity  the  sick,  particularly  those  who  are  in  danger,  and  to  hon- 
estly eliminate  the  other  fathers,  which  the  superiors  will  procure,  when 
the  confessor  sees  that  he  is  obliged  to  remove  the  other  from  the  suffer- 
ing, to  replace  and  maintain  the  sick  in  his  good  intentions.  Meanwhile 
we  must  inculcate  as  much  as  we  can  with  prudence,  the  fear  of  hell,  &cv 
&c,  or  when,  the  lesser  ones  of  purgatory;  demonstrating  that  as  water 


—20— 

will  put  out  fire,  so  will  the  same  alms  blot  out  the  sin;  and  that  we  can 
not  employ  the  alms  better,  than  in  the  maintaining  and  subsidizing  of  the 
persons,  who,  by  their  vocation,  have  made  PROFESSION  earing  for  the 
salvation  of  their  neighbor;  that  in  this  manner  the  sick  can  be  made  to 
participate  in  their  MERITS,  and  find  satisfaction  for  their  own  sins;  , 
placing  before  them  that  CHARITY  covereth  a  multitude  of  sins;  and  that 
also,  we  can  describe  ,THAT  CHARITY  is  A  nuptial  vestment,  without 

WHICH    NO   ONE   CAN    BE   ADMITTED   TO   THE    HEAVENLY   TABLE.      In    fine    it    will 

be  necessary  to  move  them  to  the  citations  of  the  Scriptures,  and  of  the 
holy  fathers,  that,  according  to  the  CAPACITY  of  the  sick,  we  can  judge 
what  is  most  efficacious  to  MOVE  them." — Chap,  IX,  14  and  15.  Sher- 
man. 

"This  code  of  Jesuit  laws  is  not  to  "be  made  known  to  every  class  of 
Jesuits.  They  have  bold,  daring,  infamous  men,  ready  for  desperate  deeds, 
by  steel,  bullets  or  poisoned  chalice.  These  know  what  others  do  not.  They 
have  disguised  agents  in  mask.  These  know  something  peculiar  to  their 
work.  They  have  crafty,  *  shrewd,  courteous,  polished  men,  who  associated 
with  the  distinguished  and  powerful;  they  have  instructions,  unknown  to 
others.  They  have  decent,  serious,  moral  men,  sent  out  to  ensnare  the  moral 
serious  and  unsuspecting.  These  teach  that  their  vow  is  one  of  poverty,  that 
they  have  nothing  to  do  with  politics  or  wealth;  their  sole  object  being  to 
put  down  heretics.  Hence,  all  classes  swear,  that  they  know  no  'Secret  in- 
structions/ "—Delisser. 

Now  can  you  see  how  the  physician  is  a  most  valuable  ally  to  get  the 
rich  widow,  widower,  old  maid  or  bachelor  to  a  Catholic  hospital? 

Now  can  you  see  why  the  growing  disposition  to  remove,  under  any 
reasonable  excuse,  a  case  to  a  hospital,  using  the  fear  of  bacteria  compli- 
cation; exploited  largely  in  my  opinion  to  secure  this  end? 

Now  can  you  see  why,  that  the  allopathic  system  descended  from  Catho- 
lic Monks,  is  claimed  World-wide  as  the  "regular"  system  of  medicine? 
Regular  through  apostolic  succession. 

Now  can  you  see  why,  partaking  from  its  Mother,  it  has  been  a  system 
of  professional  and  social  proscription,  augmented  and  for  many  years  made 
effective  through  monopolistic  privilege  with  the  Army,  Navy,  and  Public 
Health  and  Marine  Hospital  Service,  to  the  prejudice  of  the  people,  against 
the  spirit  of  our  institutions,  and  by  political  power  rather  than  merit? 

Now  can  you  see  that  in  Catholic  Hospitals,  "Institutions  of  Public  and 
Private  Relief,  Correction,  Detention  and  Residence,"  the  allopath  is  prac- 
tically the  only  man  admitted  to  favor  and  practice,  and  his  monopoly  of 
the  practice  of  medicine  must  be  secured  through  a  National  Health  Depart- 
ment to  control  or  obliterate  other  systems,  or  that  valuable  arm  of  the 
Catholic  Church  must  fail  her? 

Now  you  can  see  that  the  allopathic  system  of  medicine  directed  through 
the  American  Medical  Association  has  been  one  of  the  masks  behind  which 
of  the  Catholic  Church,  and  the  allopathic  being  the  only  system  of  medicine 
secured   National   and   State   appropriations? 

Now  can  you  see  that  the  allopathic  system  of  medicine  being  a  child 
of  the  Catholic  Church,  and  the  allopathic  being  the  only  system  of  medicine 
used  in  the  public  service,  the  United  States  being  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Medical  Association,  and  by  detail  sitting  in  the  legislative  body  of  that 
Association,  there  is  as  a  matter  of  fact  and  law,  to  that  extent  a  union 
of  Church  and  State  in  this  country? 

Now  can  you  see  that  the  augmentation  of  that  relation  through  a  Na- 
tional Health  Department  to  the  140,000  or  more  physicians  organized  for 
co-operation,  and  co-operating  with  the  Catholic  Church  in  every  township 
in  the  United  States  is  a  serious  menace  to  our  moral  and  physical  health, 
the  National,  and  every  State  treasury,  and  the  Nation  itself? 


—21— 

Now  can  you  see  that  having  corrupted  both  our  morals  and  bodies,  and 
through  more  intimate  association  preparing  to  augment  that  work,  we  may 
more  nearly  come  to  rely  for  relief  for  both  upon  the  institutions  which 
has  corrupted  both? 

Now  can  you  see  that  the  ostentatious  announcement  of  medical  theories 
engaging  instantly  the  World's  attention;  Heralded  to  the  hope,  to  end  in 
disappointment,  could  be  only  the  devices  through  which  our  lives  and  health 
were  played  with;  that  our  hopes  and  fears  could  be  used  to  the  political, 
professional,  and  financial  aggrandizement  of  these  Institutions;  mother  and 
child? 

Now  can  you  see  the  vaccination  of  Jenner,  established  against  the  best 
medical  attainment  of  the  day;  established  solely  by  political  power  and 
political  favor:  through  political  power,  and  only  through  political  power 
has  been  upheld,  to  the  cowing  of  the  proficient  in  the  profession,  and  the 
applause  of  those  unable  to  rise  above  the  low  standards  of  instruction  of 
this  system,  that  by  its  own  competents,  are  branded  as  "parrots"  and  "mur- 
derers :"  a  by-word  to  their  betters,  and  a  menace  to  society,  "for  he  car- 
ries his  devilish  conceit  and  pretense  into  homes  already  devasted  by 
sorrow   and   affliction. " 

Now  can  you  see  how  the  germ  theory,  and  germ  chasing,  may  not  only 
be  another  scheme  to  magnify  and  glorify  the  allopathic  interest;  to  hold 
the  public  eye;  to  educate  the  public  confidence;  to  secure  the  public  boost 
info  a  National  Health  Department? 

Now  can  you  see,  that  in  the  Pure  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  .Congress  might 
rave  been  played  for  position,  to  put  the  National  Health  Department  scheme 
through  ? 

Now  can  you  see  why  Dr.  Harrington  said:  "The  National  Food  and 
Drug  Act,  I  repeat,  is  not  primarily  a  health  law  and  from  the  standpoint 
of  health  it  was  not  needed.  It  is  rather  a  law  against  misbranding  and 
fraud,  but  those  who  clamored  for  it  thought  they  were  saving  their  lives 
when  they  succeeded  in  forcing  its  passage?" 

Now  can  you  see  how  allopathic  medicine,  its  theories  exposed  and  ex- 
ploded by  those  who  dared  its  medical  and  political  power;  the  "modern 
treatment!"  Osteopathy.  Christian,  and  Mental  Science,  and  the  "con- 
stant and  reproachful  object-lesson  of  homoeopathy,"  today  faces  annihila- 
tion   unless  rescued  by  legislation  of  Congress?" 

Now,  can  you  see  how  the  suffering  of  the  continued  existence  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  by  the  State,  is  a  great  moral  and  physical 
menace  to  the  people? 

Now  can  you  see  whv,  true  to  the  instinct  and  tutelage  of  its  Mother,  the 
Catholic  Church,  the  allopathic  interest  almost  from  the  foundation  of  the 
Government  up  to  and  including  today,  has  fought  Nationally,  and  in  every 
State  and  Territory,  for  laws  giving*  it  an  advantage  professionally,  and 
in  the  control  of  appropriations,  and  Institutions? 

Can  you  see  that  the  "regular,"  more  properly  Apostolic  physician,  is 
an  integral  part  of  the  economy  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  "often  nec- 
°- <? sarv  to  man's  spiritual  progress."  "...  a  means  of  carrying  out 
her  laws  and  discipline."  "The  physician's  authority  is  recognized  in  many 
of  her  most  ^'mvo^ta^t  laws."  "In  her  laws  the  nhysiciav  is  specially  hon- 
ied" fand  thev  don't  recognize  any  as  "regular"  but  their  own  apostolic. 
True,  the  American  Medical  Association,  since  1903.  has  recognized  Hom- 
oaopathists  and  Eletcric.  and  have  been  using  them  to  heJv  get  the  Cab- 
net  office  to  crush  "heretical"  medicine  — a  departure  from  means,  justified 
by  the  4nd*  sought.     Just  a  smooth  game)  \ 

"It  is  sometimes  impossible  for  the  candidate  for  hnlu  orders  to  receive 
them  tvithorib  the  authority  and  aid  of  the  physician."     "On  the  physician, 


—22— 

therefore,  as  much  as  on  the  Bishop  or  Pope,  frequently  depends  the 
right  to  be  a  priest  of  the  Catholic  Church." 

"The  only  authority  in  the  diocese  which  the  Bishop  is  bound  to  re- 
spect is  the  authority  of  his  physician" ."The  Church  will  not  canonize  a 
saint  without  the  sanction  of  the  physician"  "Thus  the  physician  very  often 
makes  the  saint"  "Thus  the  physician  is  the  Priest's  brother." — Rev,  Henry 
A.  Brarn,  D.  Z>.,  in  Catholic  World,  Vol  62. 

Now,  can  you  see  that  the  American  Medical  Association  is  only  the 
American  mask  of  the  priesthood  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church?  "Regu- 
lar," because  Apostolic  medicine. 

Now,  can  you  see  that  every  time  a  physician  claims  to  be  a  "regular" 
he  claims  Apostolic  succession,  membership  in  the  priesthood,  and  an  inte- 
gral part  of  the  economy  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church — a  living  brother 
of  the  framers,  expounders,  and  enforcers  of  their  theology  and  its  appli- 
cation generally.  "Once  in  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  always  a  part  of 
the  Roman  Catholic   Church." 

Now,  can  you  see  that  every  Commonwealth  University  teaching  "reg- 
ular" medicine  is  a  union  of  the  State  with  the  Church,  recognizing  the 
Pope's  pretensions,  and  endorsing  his  theological  teaching? 

Now,  can  you  see  that  every  Protestant  Denomination  teaching  "reg- 
ular" medicine  in  its  Universities,  recognizes  the  Pope  and  his  Church  and 
the  "regularity"  of  the  Apostolic  succession  of  their  system  of  medicine,  and 
the  theological  economy  of  which  he  is  a  part,  and  is  turning  out  and  giv- 
ing diplomas  to  physicians,  accepted  and  commissioned  by  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic Church  through  their  "regular"  apostolic  succession,  and  who,  "as  the 
representative  of  Christ  and  the  Church,  purifies  the  soul  of  the  babe  from 
original  sin  and  makes  it  worthy  of  angelic  association."  In  the  sacrament 
of  baptism  the  physician  often  takes  the  place  of  the  priest  and  gives  the 
sacrament  when  no  one  else  could  do  so  with  propriety." — Rev.  Henry  A. 
Brann,  D.  D.,  Catholic  World,  Vol.  62. 

Now,  can  you  see  in  the  European  situation  of  today:  Russia  having 
been  the  friend  of  the  Union,  while  the  Pope  was  plotting  and  aiding  its 
destruction;  the  Roosevelt  Administration  markedly  favorable  to  the  Pope: 
"In  defiance  of  all  the  rules  of  the  diplomatic  game  as  played  for  centuries" 
volunteering  between  Russia  and  Japan  undoubtedly  to  Japan's  advantage, 
Russia's  resources  allowing  of  the  financial  devastation  of  Japan  in  a  pro- 
longed struggle;  William,  neither  an  ally  or  bondholder,  applauding;  ap- 
plauding and  aiding  to  the  saving  of  Japan's  navy  which  he  now  seeks  to 
utilize  with  his  own ;  the  Pope's  anticipation  of  William's  susceptibility  be- 
fore his  coronation,  in  the  arbitration  between  Spain  and  Germany  as  to 
the  Caroline  Islands  wherein  the  Pope  within  a  month,  awarded  as  between 
the  Roman  Catholic  Majesty  of  Spain  and  the  Protestant  Majesty  of  Ger- 
many, equality  for  commercial  and  industrial  pursuit,  and  to  the  Protes- 
tant a  naval  station,  and  freedom  of  navigation  throughout  the  Archipel- 
ago; Austria  through  concordat  being  in  bondage  to  the  Pope;  Austria's 
recent  breaking  of  the  treaty  of  Berlin,  and  her  backing  by  William  to  the 
humiliation  of  Russia,  England  and  France;  the  present  disturbance  in 
France  fomented  by  the  Pope;  the  backing  heretofore  of  the  Sultan  of  Tur- 
key by  Germany;  Emperor  William  "making  an  implicit  alliance  of  the 
Vatican  and  the  German  schools  in  his  anti -revolutionary  policies;"  the 
sending  of  Prince  Henry  to  this  country;  the  sending  of  gifts  to  America 
bv  William:  the  particular  friendship  of  Roosevelt  with  the  late  German  Am- 
assbador;  Roosevelt's  friendship  for  the  Pope,  and  the  moral  effect  for  him 
of  sending  our  squadron  around  the  world;  the  almost  frantic  attitude  of 
Roosevelt  in  the  California-Japanese  incident ;  the  weakening  of  the  Anglo- 
Taoanese  alliance,  attributed  to  Germany's  ambassador  to  Japan;  that  the 
United  States  may  have  been  used  morally  through  he  popular  acclaim  of 


—23— 

Roosevelt,  to  the  action  of  Austria  and  the  Sultan;  that  such  action  may 
assist  to  bring  about  an  alliance  between  Germany  and  Japan  with  an  am- 
algamation of  their  navies,  the  Pope's  temporal  power  restored  in  Italy; 
England's  navy  engaged  by  the  alliance  while  William  lands  an  invading 
torce,  and  her  navy  beaten  by  the  alliance  in  detail ;  the  United  States  forced 
to  aid  England  against  such  an  alliance,  or  be  herself  beaten  in  detail, 
not  being  able  at  the  same  time  to  hold  alone,  the  Philippines,  and  enforce 
the  Monroe  doctrine,  detested  by  William;  the  Pope  firmly,  and  in  the  Bu- 
reau of  Printing  and  Engraving  and  the  Government  Printing  Office  over- 
whelmingly entrenched;  the  other  Departments  and  Army  and  Navy  honey- 
combed, could,  while  William  and  Japan  were  engaging  us  on  the  outside, 
paralyze  Government  Adminstration  and  revenue  internally,  and  if  we  re- 
sisted turn  upon  us  his  military  organizations  in  every  considerable  town, 
armed,  equipped  and  drilled;  that  the  struggle  in  Constantinople  is  the  pick- 
et fire  of  the  final  struggle  inaugurated  by  the  Pope  against  civil  and  reli- 
gious liberty,  with  William  and  the  Sultan,  his  allies,  Franz  Joseph  his  slave 
and  Japan  a  prospective  ally;  and  we  have  considerably  aided  our  enemies 
and  contributed  to  the  massacre  of  Christmas.  Can  you  see  the  value  of 
Washington's  advice  against  the  "insidious  wiles  of  foreign  influence,"  "a 
reason  of  attempted  centralization  of  power  in  very  recent  years,  the  piling 
up  of  expenditures,  the  multiplying  of  offices,  and  the  wisdom  of  a  tariff  bill 
framed  to  meet  a  probably  world's  conflict  m  which  we  will  be  involved? 

Now,  can  you  see  that,  in  such  an  imaginary  crisis,  our  foreign  embassies 
filled  with  Catholics,  owing  their  first  allegiance  to  the  Church,  could  aid 
despotism  and  repress  liberty?  As  a  matter  of  fact  the  Pope  could  right- 
fully command  their  allegiance,  and  if  they  were  good  enough  Catholics  to 
secure  the  positions  because  they  were  Catholics,  they  woiild  be  good  enough 
Catholics  to  respond  to  the  commands  of  the  Pope.  The  analogy  is  thus 
shown :  "The  committee,  consisting  of  Jefferson,  Gerry,  Read,  Sherman  and 
Williams,  reported:  Resolved,  that  it  is  inconsistent  with  the  interest  of  the 
United  States  to  appoint  any  person,  not  a  natural  born  citizen  thereof,  to 
the  office  of  minister,  charge  d'affaires,  consul,  vice-consul,  or  to  any  other 
civil  department  in  a  foreign  country,  and  that  a  copy  of  this  resolve  be 
transmitted  to  Messrs.  Adams,  Franklin,  and  Jay,  ministers  of  the  said 
States,  in  Europe." 

Now,  can  you  see  that  there  have  been  two  kinds  of  Protestants  in  this 
country:  Ambraham  Lincoln,  who  stood  absolutely  alone  in  his  dedication, 
"that  while  an  Almighty  Ruling  Providence  permitted  him  to  see  the  light 
of  day  and  breathe  the  pure  air  of  heaven,  and  so  long  as  he  had  a  brain  to 
think,  a  heart  to  feel  and  a  hand  to  execute  his  will,  he  would  devote  them 
all  against  that  infernal  power  that  was  the  enemy  of  all  free  government 
and  of  the  free  institutions  of  his  country,  that  polluted  the  temples  of  jus- 
tice with  its  presence  and  attempted  to  use  the  machinery  of  the  law  to 
oppress  and  crush  the  innocent  and  helpless."  God  gave  to  Lincoln,  stricken 
in  a  theatre,  the  greatest  dignity  and  honor  of  earth.  God  honored  his  cause 
but  no  church.  No  denomination.  Through  all  of  Lincoln's  life,  from  the 
tribute  to  Washington  in  1842;  through  the  debates  with  Douglas,  and  thru 
his  Administration,  in  messages  and  addresses,  God  called  to  his  followers 
througH  Lincoln.  God  accepted  the  dedication  of  Lincoln,  and  used  him  to 
the  accomplishment  of  so  much  of  the  Divine  purpose  as  he  was  permitted  to 
fulfill.  From  the  day  of  Lincoln's  death,  no  organization  bearing  the  name 
of  Christ,  has  caught  the  inspiration,  or  taken  up  the  work  of  achieving  his 
great  purpose.  What  Lincoln  stimatized,  they  court.  What  he  declared  an 
enemy  of  his  country,  they  load  with  honors  and  appropriations.  What  he 
called  the  poluter  of  our  courts  of  justice  and  oppressor  and  crusher  of  the 
innocent  and  helpless,  they  would  deliver  the  care  of  ^the  Nations's  moral  and 
physical  health  to. 


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Today  you  see  in  the  courts  of  this  District  a  criminal  action  involving 
in  disgrace  the  seller  and  buyer  of  Government  secrets  in  land  transactions, 
and  a  Japanese  making  sketches  of  our  forts  is  treated  as  a  spy,  while  the 
"formost  Catholic  layman  in  the  United  States,"  is  admitted  to  the  secrets 
of  the  very  weightiest  questions  of  State.  Neither  can  this  gentleman,  with 
all  of  his  legal  acumen,  the  Jesuitical  sophistry,  maintain  that  he  can,  at  the 
same  time,  be  a  sincere  patriot  and  a  sincere  Roman  Catholic.  He  could 
not,  I  insist,  remain  there  claiming  both,  without  being  there  as  an  actual 
spy;  compelled  by  his  belief  and  religious  allegiance  to  admit  to  his  confes- 
sor in  the  confessional  his  sin  of  participation  in  an  heretical  government, 
which,  if  carrying  out  the  object  of  its  institution,  is  the  open,  avowed  and 
uncompromising  enemy  of  his  highest  spiritual  and  temporal  allegiance. 

Read  in  the  Washington  Post  of  April  21st,  the  attitude  of  Rome  to  the 
Government  of  the  United  States  as  shown  through  Cardinal  Kopp,  the 
Catholic  Bishop  of  Breslau.  An  ambassador  of  the  United  States,  denied  for 
his  daughter  a  Protestant  religious  ceremony,  even  with  a  Catholic  religious 
ceremony  conceded  to  the  Roman  Catholic  contracting  party. 

If  Protestants  of  America  where  Rome  can  prevent  it  be  denied  a  Prot- 
estant religious  ceremony  in  the  most  sacred  earthly  contract  they  can  make, 
then  American  patriots  who  have  a  spark  of  respect  for  their  wives,  and  love 
their  daughters,  are  stultified  in  their  allegiance  to  any  party  which  feeds 
a  Roman  Catholic  at  the  public  crib. 

Yet  we,  the  pusillanimous  slaves  of  Rome's  Pope,  will  pick  up  no  gauntlet 
of  his  slapped  in  our  very  face.  Long  since  refusing  to  resent  insults  to 
our  men,  we  are  become  so  low,  that  we  swallow  insults  to  our  daughters. 
Our  franchise  sold  to  him  at  the  polls,  our  lives  a  sacrifice  to  his  interests, 
we  enrich  him  with  licensed  crime,  muzzle  our  press  to  his  deviltry,  and  will 
in  due  time  deliver  to  him  our  soul  which  he  may  now  righfully  claim.  Re- 
publican France  illy  protects  this  daughter  of  America  in  a  civil  marriage. 
Rome,  a  foreign  power,  makes  this  condition  for  our  daughters;  she  sets  the 
example,  makes  the  precedent.  No  patriotic  American  son  or  daughter  but 
would  willingly  submit  to  both,  a  civil  and  religious  ceremony,  and  we  are 
justified  in  public  policy  in  a  general  law  recognizing  in  our  courts  none 
but  civil  marriages.  This  has  the  further  advantage  of  being  a  partial  bar 
to  our  sons  and  daughters  being  coerced  by  Rome  through  the  marriage  con- 
tract, into  bringing  up  the  issue  in  the  Catholic  faith.  This  is  of  the  highest 
public  policy.  Make  the  civil  marriage  fee  nominal,  that  it  be  no  impedi- 
ment. 

Thus  our  sons  and  daughters  will  be  freed  from  one  species  of  religious 
intolerance  and  coercion.  Consider  this  humiliating  protest  of  an  Ambassa- 
dor of  the  United  States  to  Republican  France :  "Both  my  public  and  private 
life  demonstrate  my  freedom  from  religious  bias;  but  under  the  circum- 
stances, AND  AS  THE  REPRESENTATIVE  OF  A  COUNTRY  EMINENT 
FOR  ITS  RELIGIOUS  TOLERATION,  ALTHOUGH  PREDOMINANT- 
LY PROTESTANT,  I  have  decided  not  to  attend  the  service  at  St.  Joseph's, 
the  more  so  as]  there  are  several  recent  precedents  for  a  Catholic  ceremony* 
and  one  of  another  denomination.'9 

This  Government,  saved  by  Lincoln,  dare  not  protest,  and  you  w^ll  soon 
hear  of  a  demand  by  Rome  for  Ambassador  White's  retirement  to  private 
life  for  daring  to  publicly  utter  such  intolerant  and  bigoted  sentiments. 

"Paris,  April  27. — .  .  .  The  archbishop  of  Paris,  it  is  understood,  said 
that  the  Catholics  in  America  were  too  liberal.  AND  THAT  THE  OPPOR- 
TUNITY TO  MAKE  AN  EXAMPLE  IN  THE  CASE  OF  THE  AMERI- 
CAN AMBASSADOR  SHOULD  NOT  BE  NEGLECTED."— Washington 
Post 

Now,  can  you  see  any  significance  from  the  following  from  Washington 
Times. 


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*  Cleveland,  Ohio,  April  16 — A  national  movement  among  the  Knights  of 
Columbus  of  America  to  secure  the  appointment  of  another  member  of  Presi- 
dent Taft's  Cabinet,  to  be  known  as  the  Secretary  of  Health  has  been  started 
here." 

Now  can  you  see  how  the  obtaining  of  practically  a  permanent  Cabinet 
office  through  a  National  Health  Department,  and  the  establishing  of  the 
allopathic  system  as  the  State  system  of  medicine,  it  would  be  a  precedent 
for  the  establishing  or  further  intrenching  of  religion  upon  the  State? 

Now,  can  you  see  why  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  honors  the  physician 
and  their  version  of  the  scripture* praise  him? 

Now,  can  you  see  why  in  the  Roman  Catholic  economy,  in  the  sacrament 
of  baptism,  the  "regular"  physician,  through  his  apostolic  succession,  "as  the 
representative  of  Christ  and  the  church,  purifies  the  soul  of  the  babe  from 
original  sin  and  makes  it  worthy  of  angelic  association?" 

Now,  can  you  see  that  the  United  States  being  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  it  being  the  governing  body  of  the  allopathic  system 
of  medicine,  the  allopathic  physician  being  "regular"  through  apostolic  suc- 
cession to  the  Catholic  Monks,  and  apostolically  empowered  to  administer 
the  sacrament  of  baptism,  the  said  physician,  to  all  intents  and  purposes  an 
integral  part  of  the  Catholic  priesthood;  the  allopathic  interest  enjoying 
monopostolic  privilege  in  the  Army,  Navy,  and  Public  Health  and  Marine 
Hospital  Service;  the  United  States  as  a  matter  of  fact,  and  the  several 
States  of  the  Union  are*  daily  baptizing  children  into  the  Catholic  faith  and 
Church;  and  can  you  now  see  that  one  of  the  aims  of  this  National  Health 
Department  scheme? 

Now,  can  you  see  that  a  Children's  Bureau  Bill,  introduced  for  and  advo- 
cated by  the  Committee  of  One  Hundred  on  National  Health,  the  tool  of  the 
Catholic  Church,  is  only  part  of  this  Catholic  scheme,  to  throw  the  weight 
of  the  Government  in  the  direction  of  their  own  interest,  either  independent- 
ly through  such  a  bureau  or  it  as  a  part  of  the  National  Health  Department 
scheme? 

Now,  can  you  see  that  the  Pope,  claiming  to  be  a  temporal  sovereign; 
claiming  sovereignty  over  the  United  States;  having  recognized  the  South- 
ern Confederacy;  having  with  and  through  it  plotted  and  aided  the  attempt 
to  disrupt  the  Union  and  overthrown  its  sovereignty;  having  by  his  agents, 
integral  parts  of  his  political  and  ecclesiastical  economy;  absolved  persons 
claiming  to  have  been  naturalized  citizens  of  the  United  States,  from  their 
oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United  States,  and  incited  them  to  acts  of  warfare 
against  the  ^United  States;  and  having  in  other  and  divers  ways  incited, 
encouraged  and  permitted  acts  of  war  against  the  United  States  during 
the  Civil  War;  having  by  his  agents,  members  of  his  spiritual  and  tem- 
poral armies,  through  such  encouragement  inciting  and  permission  of 
acts  of  war.  encompassed  by  force  of  arms,  the  death  of  Abraham  Lincoln, 
fhe  President  of  the  United  States;  and  having  at  the  time  of  the  war  of 
fho  United  States  with  Spain,  given  spiritual  aid,  comfort,  blessing  and 
encouragement  to  Spain,  our  enemy;  having  by  his  Archbishop  of  Manila, 
in  a  pastoral  letter,  in  1898,  inciting  Kis  claimed  subjects  under  such  pas- 
torates to  acts  of  hostility,  calling  the  flag  of  the  United  States,  "the  flag 
of  the  enemy,"  saying  in  substance:  "Dark  days  broke  when  the  North 
American  Squadron  entered  swiftly  our  brilliant  bay,  and  despite  the  hero- 
ism of  our  sailors  destroyed  the  Spanish  ships  and  succeeded  in  hoisting  the 
flan  of  the  e^ewv  on  the  blessed  soil  of  our  country. 

"Donot  forget  that  in  their  anger  they  intend  to  crush  our  rights:  that 
the  stranger  tries  to  subject  us  to  the  yoke  of  the  heretic:  tries  to  break 
^owti  our  religion  and  dra<?  us  from  the  holv  familv  of  the  Catholic  Church. 
I  KNOW  YOU  ARE  PREPARING  TO  DEFEND  YOUR  COUNTRY.  You 
must  all  have  recourse  to  arms  and  prayers;  arm,  because  the  Spanish  pop- 


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ulation,  though  attenuated  and  wounded,  shows  its  patriotism  when  defend- 
ing its  religion  (WHAT  AN  AWFUL  REBUKE  AND  DEFIANCE  TO 
THE  PROTESTANT) ;  prayer,  because  victory  always  is  given  by  God  to 
those  who  have  justice  on  their  side.  God  will  send  his  angels  and  saints 
to  be  with  us,  and  to  fight  on  our  side"  Having  said  through  his  confes- 
sionals in  the  Philippine  Islands,  and  by  his  special  and  direct  and  ennobled 
agent  Chapelle  the  following  as  stated  before  the  Philippine  Commission, 
Senate  Document  No.  190,  56th  Congress,  2d  Session,  page  141,  testimony  of 
Senor  Don  Felipe  Calderon  (lawyer),  of  Manila: 

".  .  .  And  even  at  the  present  time*there  is  not  the  slightest  doubt 
that  they  have  said  to  the  American  authorities  that  all  of  the  Filipino  peo- 
ple were  a  lot  of  anarchists  and  insurgents  who  were  conspiring  to  overthrow 
constituted  authority,  while  to  the  people  of  the  Philippines  they  say  the 
American  Government  will  place  a  chain  around  the  waist  of  each  of  them; 
I  do  not  make  this  assertion  as  an  emanation  from  myself.  I  have  seen  it  in 
writing.  In  the  confessional  they  say  to  them :  'How  can  you  be  in  favor  of 
the  Americans  when  they  are  absolutely  the  enemies  of  our  religion?'  And 
they  say  that  constantly  to  their  secular  clergy,  adding  that  woe  betides  the 
poor  Filipinos  who  deliver  themselves  over  unconditionally  to  the  American 
Government,  and  I  have  heard  this  from  the  very  lips  of  Monsieur  Cha- 
pelle. "  (As  an  index  of  the  moral  health  promoted  by  the  Roman  Catho- 
lic clergy  in  the  Philippines,  and  as  a  r,ecomendation  for  their  Health  and 
Children's  Bureau  scheme,  as  made  by  a  Commission  of  the  United  States 
Government,  this  document  is  commended  to  the  careful  perusal,  and  prayer- 
ful consideration,  of  Protestant  clergymen  who  thirst  to  know  just  what  an 
apostolic  representative  of  Christ  in  the  Catholic  Church  is,  and  will  inter- 
est Protestant  women  who  aspire  to  know  just  what  the  Children's  Bureau 
they  petition  for  might  turn  out  to  accomplish  .  .  .  provided  always  this 
document  is  procurable.)  Having  by  such  acts  of  permission,  incitement, 
and  encouragement  of  enmity,  encompassed  the  death  of  William  McKinley, 
President  of  the  United  States;  having  declared  war  upon  our  form  of  gov- 
ernment, and  upon  civil  and  religious  liberty  and  seeking  to  extirpate  the 
same;  having  first  bound  the  binds,  consciences  and  actions  in  allegiance  of 
his  adherents  to  his  decrees  and  desires;  having  established  in  this  country 
a  system  of  espionage  through  the  so-called  confessional,  from  his  Nuncio, 
Cardinal,  Archbishops,  Bishops,  and  Priests  bound  by  oath  to  him,  and  each 
other  of  his  adherents;  having  by  and  in  these  spies,  secured  in  the  adminis- 
stration  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States  itself,  declared  by  him,  his 
Councils,  and  representatives  as  their  civil  and  religious  enemy,  and  have 
so  logically  declared  their  enmity  to  the  United  States,  having  in  such  espi- 
onage extending  to  the  least  of  his  adherents,  at  the  Capitol  as  Washington, 
of  said  United  States,  approximately  fifty  per  cent  more  or  less  of  the  ad- 
ministrative force  of  the  said  National  Government;  having  head  of  the 
Bureau  of  Printing  and  Engraving,  printing  for  the  said  Government  the 
paper  money  and  postage  and  other  stamps  used  and  for  use  in  her  adminis- 
tration, with  approximately  seventy  per  cent  of  the  skilled  and  other  em- 
ployees thereof  adherent  to  said  Pope  and  his  commands,  and  absolutely  sub- 
jecting our  paper  medium  of  exchange,  postal  carriage  and  internal  revenue 
to  paralysis  in  a  crisis,  upon  attempt  to  enforce  the  said  pretensions  of  the 
said  Pope;  having  by  his  said  agents  and  adherents  offended,  and  now  daily 
offending  against  the  law  of  the  land,  assuming  to  license,  and  absolve  from 
guilt  of  such  offenses,  independently  of  and  above  such  law  of  the  land;  hav- 
ing accumulated  vast  and  valuable  properties  both  improved  and  unimproved, 
and  held  largely  through  incorporation  acts  invoked  to  protect  such  property 
to  said  Pope,  and  used  for  the  purposes  of  domicile,  of  plotting,  teaching  and 
revenue  to  secure  the  destruction  of  the  said  Government  of  the  United 
States,   which    said    artificial    creature,    having   divested    the    said    Catholic 


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Church  of  property  interest,  and  such  artificial  creature  devoting  said  pro- 
perties wholly  to  the  purposes  of  subversion  of  the  Government  of  the  United 
States,  the  said  incorporation  for  such  purpose  being  against  the  peace, 
dignity  and  integrity  of  the  several  States  and  of  the  United  States,  stand 
at  law  abatable  and  contraband  of  war,  independent  of  any  claim  by  the 
United  States  as  to  the  temporal  or  spiritual  pretensions  of  the  said  Pope, 
and  upon  the  claims  of  the  said  Pope,  his  councils  and  adherents  alone,  and 
so  stand  confiscate  at  the  hands  of  the  properly  constituted  authority,  upon 
demand  and  possession.  Can  you  imagine  that  of  the  essence  of  Lincoln's 
"GREAT  PURPOSE?" 

Can  you  not  see  that  such  war  is  yet  being  waged;  that  the  absolving  of 
allegiance,  the  blessing  and  consecrating  of  flags  of  insurgents  at  home,  and 
of  enemies  abroad,  the  assassination  of  Lincoln,  the  pastoral  letter  of  the 
Archbishop  of  Manila,  the  assassination  of  McKinley,  were  the  logical,  legal 
circumstantial  expression  in  overt  acts,  of  the  anarchistic  teaching,  as  held 
in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Chief  Justics  Waite,  in  the  Utah  case? 

Now,  can  you  see  that  we  have  no  moral  right  to  object  to  the  infraction 
of  laws,  when  we  license  the  infraction  independent  of  our  laws,  and  acknowl- 
edge a  power  of  absolution  upon  the  earth,  in  our  midst,  yet  above  the  State? 

When  we  take  these  Catholic  authorities  at  their  word,  recognize  that 
independent  of  our  laws  they  license  and  regulate  anarchy;  when  we  realize 
that  they  are  tolerated  as  a  religious  institution,  for  their  votes,  or  other 
reason;  we  are  partners  in  this  traffic;  that  defying  our  own  laws  for  the 
benefit  of  a  foreign  sovereignty,  the  blo.od  of  Lincoln  and  McKinley  is  upon 
our  garments,  as  well  as  that  of  every  person  who  falls  by  the  hands  of  a 
Catholic  subscribing  to  such  beliefs;  then  by  our  acts  we  admit,  that  our 
r  raise  of  Lincoln  and  McKinley  is  pure  cant;  that  we  are  just  what  the 
Papists  call  us — a  lot  of  heretics,  nationally  and  religiously. 

Let  the  Catholic  keep  and  enjoy  his  religious  belief  and  his  religious 
opinion;  he  insists  upon  the  removal  of  the  Protestant  bible  from  the  public 
schools,  complains  of  their  being  "Godless"  and  wants  "religion"  taught  there; 
let  us  then  in  full  justice  to  them  and  to  the  State,  make,  if  not  in  the  public 
schools,  in  the  State  Universities  that  belief  and  opinion  a  part  of  the  infor- 
mation imparted.  Let  it  for  the  purposes  of  contrast  and  discussion  be 
rlaced  beside  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States.  Bring  to  the  light  of  day  the  Constitution  and  secret  in- 
structions of  the  Jesuits,  the  doctrines  propounded  by  Councils  and  Popes, 
and  the  hidden  exposition  by  their  theological  writers.  Let  this  theology  in 
plain  Engl:sh  expound  itself.  Education  ever  has  been,  and  must  ever  be 
our  security.  Each  State,  as  a  patriotic  safeguard,  provides  a  University; 
put  this  information  at  the  disposal  of  these  students,  we  may  trust  the  intel- 
ligence that  we  train.  Whatever  may  be  suggested,  we  owe  it  so  long  as  the 
Catholic  Church  exists  unchanged,  to  disseminate  its  hidden  precepts  and 
theology.  To  the  young  man  equipped  and  ambitious  to  serve  his  country 
in  the  Presidency,  he  should  have  the  opportunity  to  know  that  its  patriotic 
administration  invites  assassination,  and  its  subservient  adminstration  to 
this  Catholic  form  of  government  demonstrates  treason.  That  in  the  humble 
and  unnoticed  walks  of  life,  the  enmity  of  this  power  means  absolved  per- 
■mry  in  our  courts,  and  its  implacable  hatred  knows  no  crime  but  scandal. 
We  may  thus  realize  as  the  late  Archbishop  Spaulding  of  Baltimore  declared 
in  1870:  "That  if  the  public  schools  were  rigidly  maintained  in  this  country, 
and  the  public  funds  were  withheld  from  parochial  schools,  and  compulsory 
attendance  laws  were  enforced,  that  Roman  Catholicism  would  lose  most  of 
h^v  reople  in  one  or  two  generations,  unless  she  honestly  adapted  HER- 
SELF to  the  changed  conditions."  Whatever  Lincoln's  method  may  have 
been  in  the  light  of  his  utterances  we  can  n^t  doubt  his  "Great  Purpose." 
nor  forget  the  obvious  significance  of  his  sacrifice.     Consistent  with  our  dig- 


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nity ;  consonant  with  the  spirit  of  our  institutions ;  commending  itself  to  every 
patriot  and  paralyzing  every  protest,  we  may  thus  educationally  build  to  the 
glory  of  the  immortal  Lincoln  a  monument  not  appealing  to  the  sensual 
sense,  or  an  evidence  of  cant,  but  a  living,  virile  force,  potent  alike  abroad 
and  at  home,  "and  to  all  classes  and  conditions  of  mankind." 

Under  the  dome  of  the  Capitol,  in  the  hall  dedicated  to  American  patriots, 
Marquette,  the  Jesuit,  was  placed  in  marble,  to  the  shame  of  Wisconsin  and 
the  National  Congress;  disputing  the  patriotism  of  Washington  and  his  com- 
patriots, the  while  life  of  Lincoln  and  the  results  of  two  wars  for  freedom. 
There  they  stand  in  the  Hall  of  Liberty,  representing  the  two  ex-extremest, 
and  extremest  types,  of  antagonistic  allegiances  of  earth.  "The  one  the  com- 
mon right  of  humanity,  and  the  other  the  divine  right  of  kings.  It  is  the 
same  principle  in  whatever  shape  it  develops  itself." — Lincoln.  From  this 
time  forth,  may  every  member  of  Congress,  until  the  Pope  shall  abolish  Con- 
gress and  throw  out  the  statue  of  Lincoln  from  the  Capitol,  hear  every  time 
he  passes  through  statuary  hall  or  sees  the  features  of  Lincoln  portrayed, 
the  dedication  of  Lincoln,  and  see  upon  the  Jesuitical  garb  of  Marquette  the 
blood  of  the  man  whose  memory  it  insults. 

"Dead,  he  speaks  to  men  who  now  willingly  hear  what  before  they  refused 
to  listen  to.  Now  his  simple  and  weighty  words  will  be  gathered  like  those 
of  Washington,  and  your  children  and  your  children's  children  shall  be 
taught  to  ponder  the  simplicity  and  deep  wisdom  of  utterances  which  in 
their  time  passed  in  party  heat  as  idle  words.  Ye  people,  behold  a  martyr 
whose  blood,  as  so  many  articulate  words,  pleads  for  fidelity,  for  LAW,  for 
liberty." — Beecher. 

From  the  popular  and  political  odium  which  will  come  upon  me  for  such 
utterances,  I  take  refuge  in  the  record  and  words  of  Lincoln  and  of  Wash- 
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"Real  patriots  who  may  resist  the  intrigues  of  the  favorites  are  liable 
to  become  suspected  and  odious,  while  its  tools  and  dupes  usurp  the  ap- 
plause and  confidence  of  the  people  to  surrender  their  interests." — Wash- 
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